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Category Archives: R. Yitzhock Adlerstein
What Then Shall We Do: The Work Adlerstein Left
Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein built the most sophisticated coalition architecture in American Orthodox intellectual life in the past three decades. He held together Haredi seriousness, Modern Orthodox professional ambition, evangelical interfaith alliance, and secular academic respectability without triggering defection from any … Continue reading
The Translator’s Constraint: Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein and the Architecture of Multi-Coalition Speech
Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein is often described as a moderate voice in American Orthodoxy. That description treats his tone as a personality trait or a moral achievement. A closer look shows something more demanding and more fragile. His voice is not … Continue reading
Decoding Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
Written with AI: Through Alliance Theory, Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein is best understood as a high-credibility boundary translator whose role is to defend Orthodox authority while selectively engaging external moral and intellectual systems without conceding sovereignty. He is not an outreach … Continue reading
Rabbis: Why We Shouldn’t Force Hasidic Jews To Offer Secular Education
There’s not a word in this essay about what is plainly in America’s interests. Clearly, America benefits from a population that is literate in its national language, English, and knows basic math and history and other secular subjects well enough … Continue reading
“Right, Left and the Jews: The Torah Community and the Future of American Politics”
Rabbi Yitzchok Alderstein writes: While the nation struggles to make sense out of an election season more bizarre than any live American has seen, we recognize that this campaign is fraught with dangers that impact our community in particular. The … Continue reading
R. Yitzhok Alderstein: ‘What I Learned at the Ulmer Institute Inaugural’
Rabbi Adlerstein writes: Decades ago, too long ago for most of us to remember, Jews and African-Americans enjoyed a close strategic alliance. The marriage broke up horribly. Blacks felt that they had been dealt with paternalistically, and also resented a … Continue reading
Rabbis: Mideast Christians Deserve U.S. Refuge
The rabbis don’t bother to argue that this immigration will be good for America. That argument does not come up in their essay. That does not interest them. What does interest them? “Success in dealing with the first wave of … Continue reading
A Dayan Is Victimized By Identity Theft
Will the assault against the authority of the rabbis ever end? This makes my heart sad. Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein posts: A friend and colleague has just been the victim of identity theft. I would appreciate any leads on how to … Continue reading
Random Thoughts On The Torah Scroll Dispute
* Rita Pauker interview. Rabbi Samuel Ohana interview. * In an offer attached as Exhibit B to R. Ohana’s first pleading filed with the Los Angeles Superior Court in this case, R. Ohana offered to give Rita Pauker all four … Continue reading
The Rabbi Orlofsky Mess
Background Rav Adlerstein posts: “When Rabbi Weinreb (to whose ankles in Torah R. Orlofsky will never rise)…” Rav Adlerstein blogs on another topic: Unlike many New Yorkers I know, I do not have an easy time listening to Michael Savage. … Continue reading