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All of Our Children By Rabbi Shimon Russell | August 3, 2021 As the time of Mashiach approaches, Hashem will rouse us through the most painful and sensitive wake-up call of all: the scattering of our children.
Having just read Rav Aaron Lopiansky’s excellent piece “Crumbling Foundations,” I find myself both sad and inspired. Sad, because his premise is so painfully accurate. Inspired, because that premise resonated deeply with me, and I feel compelled to put pen to paper in an attempt to urge us all to do something about it. Are we brave enough to do a little research? Consider interviewing a random sample of all students graduating from our schools and yeshivos, including a representative sampling of students who dropped out (or were pushed out) before graduating. Let’s ask them the following multiple-choice question: ....
Rav Lopiansky’s model of truth-seeking as applied to the recent election results
A recent column, “Get Thee Gone,” critical of President Trump’s post-election behavior, attracted a fair amount of criticism. I learned a good deal from that criticism, including something about myself to wit, all things considered, I prefer praise to criticism (about which more later.) As far as most not all of the critics were concerned, any column that mentions the president is either pro-Trump or anti-Trump. And anything that is not 100 percent pro-Trump is, by definition, anti-Trump. No further analysis of the points made is required. ....