OPINION & COMMENT

Who is an Authentic Jew?

Most of Klal Yisroel — certainly most of the residents of Israel, judging by the way they answer surveys about their relationship to Jewish tradition — greeted as good news the announcement that Kibbutz Degania was building a beit knesset. Not so Reform Rabbi Dr. Dalia Sara Marx, a teacher at the Hebrew Union College.

The Task of a Jewish Mother
A letter from HaRav Shimshon Pincus, zt'l

I am writing with regard to the articles that appeared in the paper, on the topic of hosting married children in their parents' home for Shabbos, chagim, and the like. I wish to bring our readers' attention to a very important point and explain what I understand to be a basic problem, and even a fundamental error in hashkofoh.

Thinking Deeply About Torah
by Maran HaRav Shach, zt"l

Meaningful Prayer (part 14)
by Dovid Leitner

In a previous article we described how the first part of Adon Olom incorporates the meanings of the various Names of Hashem. This is said at the onset of our tefillos, as suggested by the Apter Rov in keeping with the Vilna Gaon, so as to act as an initial declaration of our correct intentions whenever we pronounce His Name in our subsequent tefillos.

Politica: Olmert on the Job
By E. Rauchberger