On 11/27/24, erev Thanksgiving 2024, I wondered whether Rabbi Moshe Feinstein and the Rov, Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, were ...

The earliest skyjackings were not committed for purposes of seeking refuge or pursuing global attention for radical causes. That would come later. The first recorded skyjacking took place on February ...

In 1956, Rav Moshe Feinstein, the preeminent American halachic authority of the second half of the 20 th century, received a fascinating question. There was a group of Orthodox Jews who refused to ...

Jackie Mason (center) with his wife Jyll Rosenfeld and the author in Tov Taam in May. I do not know if my May 26, 2021 interview with Jackie Mason was his last, but it is certainly odd to consider ...

(JTA) — Rabbi Dovid Feinstein, one of the most prominent haredi Orthodox rabbis in the United States, has died. He was 91 years old. The son of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, one of the preeminent Jewish ...

A number of years ago, a philanthropist who visited the late Rabbi Moshe Feinstein’s rabbinical seminary on the Lower East Side of New York prepared to give a large gift to the yeshiva. He insisted, ...