12 Shvat: R'Meir Atlas (1848-1926). Rav in Libau, Kurland, Salant, Korbin & Shavli. Father-in-law of R'Elchonon Wasserman & R'Chaim Ozer Grodzinski. Helped found the Yeshiva of Telshe in 1875.

16 Shvat: R'Shalom Mordechai Hakohen Schwadron, the Maharsham (1835-1911). Author- Mishpat Shalom, Darchei Shalom, Da'as Torah & Galui Da'as

A kind reminder that Wikipedia is a site that rewrites reality, is unreliable, and the AI engines we all use draw information from it for the answers we receive.

interesting question, though ofc one could suggest that there was an underlying "conservative" (one senses here that "liberal/conservative" is the wrong word) sensibility that the liberal culture both retained and continually chipped away at

Could never have been printed in a litvishe sefer (because it was the wife doing the editing) 😉

Amnesty responded faster to the WaPo firings than to the slaughter in Iran.

Going through my archives of very bad journalism. This is what the Washington Post put out and then deleted. Lunatics take over asylums.

I don't think I agree with this

Extremely confused as to what the question is here

23 Shvat: R'Moshe Kliers (1874-1934). Along with the Divrei Shmuel of Slonim,he founded Yeshivas Ohr Torah (by the kever of Rav Meir Baal Haness). Author of Toras HaEretz.

What this clip doesn’t catch is that Ryan T. Anderson, a devout and knowledgeable Catholic, repeatedly corrected recent convert Carrie Prejean Boller, citing Nostra Aetate, Pope John Paul II, and Pope Benedict XVI. Those clips, sadly, haven’t gotten as much traction as Prejean’s antics.

היה גדול בישראל שאמר על גדול בישראל אחר, כי היה באמת גדול בישראל, רק חבל שהיה לו בית דפוס אצל ביתו כך שכל מה שהוא חשב הוא מיד הדפיס. כנראה, אפילו גדולים לפעמים אומרים דברים שיותר טוב שלא להגיד.

What Happens If A Religion Precludes A Person From Supporting Zionism? reason.com/volokh/2026/02…

Nostalgia, beautiful but also (potentially) destructive...

Many on my feed are understandably outraged by this essay, which they feel is a cynical misuse of the memory of the Holocaust, deployed in a contemporary political debate for which it is entirely unsuited. I don't think they're seeing the whole picture. 1/9

incredibly hilarious that they charge 180 bucks for this. (also i see that we are heavy on the smol, light on the emuni)

I see that many people find it hard to come to terms with the fact that apparently thanks to Elon Musk Ukraine regained about 200 square kilometers in just 5 days.

Josef Pieper, in Only the lover sings: Art and contemplation: “Man's ability to see is in decline. Searching for the reasons, we could point to various things: modern man's restlessness and stress, quite sufficiently denounced by now, or his total absorption and enslavement by

So incredibly classic cc Moshe Kurtz

It is a bit unusual for a person being targeted for assassination to get a warning ahead of time. But that is what happens to Hezbollah terrorists in southern Lebanon. Several times, they are with their families and receive phone calls telling them that they are about to be