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Na'aseh v'Nishmah: Accepting Torah through Thick and Thin

Rabbi Baruch Weintraub, Rabbi Moshe Taragin

Join Torah in Motion for an evening of pre-Shavuot learning with RABBI MOSHE TARAGIN, Yeshivat Har Etzion and RABBI BARUCH WEINTRAUB, Yeshiva University Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov One Text, Two Perspectives

Program

May 20, 2012

Our Days Are Numbered

Dr. Elliott Malamet

Mark Steyn put it quite simply in America Alone: “Experts talk about root causes. But demography is the most basic root of all.” Prognostications about the future of any country, race or civilization must begin and end with the hard numbers. Is a…

Article

May 6, 2012

The Open Society

Dr. Elliott Malamet

In his groundbreaking book, The Heretical Imperative, Professor Peter Berger argued that modernity—and its emphasis on freedom of choice—has profoundly affected every area of society, religion included. In a world where personal and communal…

Article

Apr 30, 2012

Authenticity

Dr. Elliott Malamet

Sin gets bad press these days, because it is experienced as a guest that brings a whole slew of unwelcome associates into the house--guilt, bad feeling, punitiveness. These alleged running mates of sin are anathema to most, and so the very ability…

Article

Apr 29, 2012

The Unsinkable Ship: 100 Years After the Titanic Disaster

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Despite the passage of 100 years, the sinking of the Titanic holds a special fascination. In fact, the only time I’ve gone out to the theatres to see a movie in the last fifteen years was to see the original release of James Cameron’s Titanic. The “…

Article

Apr 15, 2012