Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity

  https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/understanding-the-marc-gafni-story-part-ii In 2004, The Jewish Week ran a damning expos...

  https://www.lukeford.net/profiles/profiles/mordecai_gafni.htm  Judy told her story to Rabbi Shlomo Riskin. He chose to believe Winiarz. ...

From comments I wrote on Avodah in 1999  I think a rather inaccurate and naive black and white picture is being presented of the nature of ...

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanukkah_gelt   Rabbi A. P. Bloch has written that "The tradition of giving money (Chanukah gelt) to c...

  https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/baalei-teshuvah In the second half of the 20 th century...

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  https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-baal-teshuva-movement/   BTW one of the saddest  respondents  I encountered was  Rav  Ephraim Buchwal...

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baal_teshuva_movement Appearing as an identifiable movement in the 1960s, a growing number of young Jews who...

  https://www.thelehrhaus.com/commentary/is-modern-orthodox-kiruv-possible/   In theory, the Modern Orthodox community is in the best possib...

  https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/221450  A number of leading rabbinical figures in the Orthodox world have issued a ster...

https://agudah.org/the-jewish-observer-vol-35-no-5-may-2002sivan-5762/    There is another aspect to the "with us" syndrome: Give ...

https://mishpacha.com/out-to-save-the-world/ Warmly eulogized by the entire Torah world after his passing, in his lifetime he was both ridi...

About 15 years ago I had the opportunity to spend a number of hours with the Shomer Emunim Rebbe. The following are samples of our conversat...