We recently celebrated Shavuos, a holiday on which we rejoice in the giving of the Torah not just to a nation, but to 600,000 individuals. As Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks writes, according to the… Read more

“The more connected we become, the lonelier we are,” laments the author of “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?,” a fascinating article that recently appeared in the Atlantic Monthly. And indeed, for all… Read more

Back in the 1950s and 60s, I don’t recall there being any labels identifying one’s religiosity. You were either observant or non-observant.  In Yeshiva Torah Vodaath, which was in Williamsburg at the… Read more

I consider myself to be fairly well plugged into twenty-first-century technology. I have a BlackBerry; own several desktop computers and a laptop and use Bluetooth technology in my car. Remarkably, I… Read more