Right after the news of Rabbi Norman Lamm’s resignation hit the media, there soon came an even more eye opening story out of Yeshiva University. A group of 19 alumni who claim to have been sexually abused by Yeshiva faculty in high school filed a 380 million dollar lawsuit against the institution, and they’re being [...]
ReadLincoln Center’s Metropolitan Opera hosted a repertory of ballets by the American Ballet Theater company for the summer season, from May to July. The season featured a number of classics, presenting a different show every week. Here are some highlights from three different shows in June. Romeo and Juliet. Prokofiev’s ballet version of Shakespeare’s classic [...]
ReadMy mother was the daughter of the Chotiner rebbe, who died at the hands of the Nazis in 1941 with his oldest son at his side. My mother lost her mother as well to the Nazis. She later came to America and started a whole new chapter with her surviving five siblings. She was introduced [...]
ReadWhen it comes to naming one of the loudest Orthodox rabbis in the non-Jewish world, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach certainly comes to mind. And despite his inconsequential impact on the Orthodox community, the self-declared human rights activist has been named by Newsweek as one of America’s 50 most influential rabbis, been featured on Oprah, and even [...]
ReadWhen Dr. Weisel speaks, you listen. Not only if you are Jewish, either. The auditorium was packed–plenty of Jews came to hear him talk, yes, but plenty of non-Jews were there, too. The place was rapt from the first word he spoke; and when ten minutes after starting time he paused to let latecomers troop [...]
ReadEarlier this year, The Beacon Mag ran an issue on the impact of Eating Disorders in the Orthodox community, and several of the authors even accused our Orthodox culture of contributing to the spread of these diseases. But while there are undoubtedly many possibly triggering elements within our religious culture, it is important to remind [...]
ReadThe Beacon would like to thank all of its writers for a fantastic year! We’ll be back in a few weeks, but in the meantime, we would like to wish everyone a fantastic summer.
ReadThis is a response to Why it’s Time for Jews to Get Over the Holocaust My entire Father’s side of the family was in the Holocaust, my Grandmother Helen (z’l) included. She is the woman after whom I was named. She died just before I was born. I know her story from the war by [...]
ReadHomosexuality is the new Black. Take up the causes and show off to the world just how progressive you are with your pink attire and lambda tattoos. Everyone will think you’re swimming against the tide of homophobia that’s so rampant in a corrupt government. You’ll be just like the news, a champion of justice, a [...]
ReadLasting Jewish achievement is reached only through the serious study of text. Jewish history has witnessed the advent and decline of many schools, philosophies, and sects. All are grounded in particular readings of Jewish text: the Sadducees in a literalist reading of the Torah, the Tosafists in a harmonized reading of the Talmud, and Maimonides [...]
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