Emes Ve-Emunah

A Forum for Orthodox Jewish thought on Halacha, Hashkafa, and the issues of our time.

Sunday, October 26, 2025

No New Post Today.

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In an effort to improve the reading and commenting experience for my readers,  I am experimenting with another format - Substack - and do no...
Friday, October 24, 2025

Annexing the West Bank Versus a Palestinian State

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 I don’t get it. Or sadly, maybe I do. What we have in the Israeli Knesset is a conflict between ideologues who do not understand the value...
Thursday, October 23, 2025

Annexing Judea and Samaria / Electing Zohran Mamdani

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Vice President Vance and Prime Minister Netanyahu meet in the PM's office  Although this is not what I want to talk about today, I woul...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Conflicted Emotions and Unfinished Wars

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I have had a number of conflicting emotional thoughts about a confluence of events which, at first glance, might not seem related . And yet ...
Tuesday, October 21, 2025

The Cease Fire - So Far So Good

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Will Hamas disarm? ( CNN ) The cease fire deal between Israel and Hamas is not unraveling. Contrary to claim of the many Trump and Netanyahu...
Monday, October 20, 2025

Jewish Culture Does Not Define Us

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Wesleyan University president Michael Roth   I have long been lamenting the decline of American Jews who care about identifying as Jews. Tha...
Saturday, October 18, 2025

Final Thoughts upon Returning to Chicago

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Now that the war is over (hopefully), and I’ve had a chance to think about it, I realized that I was here when the war began on October 7th ...
Thursday, October 16, 2025

Rabbi Moshe Hauer, ZTL

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Rabbi Moshe Hauer, ZTL ( OU ) I never met him, but he was an inspiration to me. I am deeply saddened to report the passing of Rabbi Moshe...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Thank God - They Are Finally Home

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All 20 living hostages returned to Israel ( TOI ) All the living hostages kidnapped and so brutally treated under captivity by Hamas terrori...
Sunday, October 12, 2025

Better Late Than Never

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New Editor-in-Chief of CBS News, Bari Weiss ( JTA ) Nowhere is the anti-Israel bias reflected by the broadcast media more strident than at C...
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