LSS Blog

Almost exactly 75 years ago, as Nazi Germany swallowed up Czechoslovakia, the civilized world decided it would do its very best to avoid any sense of humanity or responsibility.

Neville Chamberlain declared that, to risk British lives “because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing” was nonsensical. The result was a year of peace, followed by the most terrible war the world has ever...Read more...

When I decided to speak about the looming schisms and building animosity amongst our people, I realized one thing. It is not intellectually honest to both advocate for tolerance, and give whole hearted expression to only one side of an argument. That’s how one creates macholket, not solves it. And so I set myself a challenge, and it is a challenge I set before all of us today. The central issue right now in Israel is the proposed draft for...Read more...

These are fraught times for the Orthodox community and the Jewish people. Issues such as Women of the Wall, the proposed draft of Yeshiva Students to the Israeli army, the elections for the Chief Rabbinate in Israel (last week one of the most respected Rabbis in Israel called a candidate for Chief Rabbi a 'wicked man..his election would be akin to bringing idols into the Holy Temple') and many others, threaten to shatter what little sense of...Read more...