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Rabbi Paysach Freedman cuts red tape and opens doors for Anglos in Israel Photos: Eli Cobin I f there is a geographical center to Jerusalem’s sprawling English-speaking yeshivah and kollel life, it’s probably Givat Moshe, a neighborhood abustle with avreichim and yeshivos — a short journey to Belz one way, up the road from the Mir empire another, and just over the junction from the American strongholds of Ramat Eshkol and Maalot Dafna. Better known by its municipal map allocation as Gush Shmonim (“Bloc 80”), a more fitting moniker would be Kollel Mile. And that’s why crossing the...

Rav Dovid Soloveitchik lived in a world where the only reality was spiritual. The last living son of the Brisker Rav, his petirah marks the end of a glorious era in the dynasty’s history I   n the yeshiva world, the word “Brisk” is uttered with reverence. It conjures up images of batei medrash pulsating with activity, erudite scholars steeped in solemnity, scintillating and rigorous analyses, and uncompromising dedication to the truth of Torah. If Brisk is a kingdom, then it has several royal palaces—the yeshivos dotting the heart of Yerushalayim—and a royal family that presides ...

  Allow me to share with you an important family secret about the tefillah of Nishmas. That Nishmas is one of the most powerful and significant tefillos is not a secret. That this tefillah is traced back to the generation of the Tannaim is also no secret. It is also well known that the tefillah has been recommended by many gedolim throughout the generations as a powerful segulah. So then what is this “important family secret” about Nishmas I am about to share? First, let me offer some important background. There are various opinions as to who composed this important tefillah. The first l...

Photo Credit: Archive photo The development of two mRNA Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna – both of which have received FDA emergency-use authorization – is a most generous gift from Hashem. Despite the many unanswered questions, these vaccines (and potentially others) have the potential to save millions of lives worldwide. But only if we take them. It is therefore critical that we know the opinion of halachic experts on these vaccines. Their opinion, the opinion of gedolim representing all sectors of Orthodoxy, is based on two large prospective, double-blind trial...

Rav Dovid Kamenetsky brings Rav Chaim Ozer Grodzenski to life. “Everything we have today, the entire yeshivah world, is from Rav Chaim Ozer”  Photos: Eli Cobin, Personal Archives Walking into Rav Dovid Kamenetsky’s Har Nof apartment, I’m immediately struck by the resemblance to his father, Rav Shmuel, whose picture adorns the living room wall along with a photo of his grandfather, Rav Yaakov. My conversation with this modest talmid chacham, who is also a self-made scholarly historian, shows me just how much his life’s work has been influenced by his illustrious father and grandfa...