“I do believe that these trials come to us also from God.”

The letters of Aharon Dovid Shainberg.

A counterintuitive solution.

The consequences of efforts to force state curriculum guidelines on ultra-Orthodox schools.

Shababnikim.

A rabbi comes to YIVO.

In praise of Chaim Grade.

For him, the individual was paramount.

A recent article doesn’t meet the paper’s own standards.

“For him, moderation is born of a burning and lifelong desire.”

Avraham Yurovitch, who died in 2002, was a rabbi of some prominence in Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox community. He was also a mystic who taught meditative techniques. . .

Traditional Jewish study methods have something to gain from the techniques of academic scholarship—and vice-versa. 

Religious schools save New York taxpayers billions, yet the state legislature has dropped a tax-relief measure for parents with children in religious schools. Why?

A self-discipline program devised by the American founder inspired a 19th-century rabbinic guide to self-improvement that is still studied in yeshivas today.