Lazer Gurkow, Author at Inner Stream

The Ultra Orthodox Draft

Shavuot Amid Israel’s war in Gaza, there is talk of drafting yeshivah students into the army to bolster its ranks. […]

This Shabbat, the 2’nd of Sivan, will be three-thousand-three-hundred-thirty-six years since G-d declared us a kingdom of princes. However, when

Michelangelo once said, “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” The essence of

Are we truly equal? We all know someone smarter, wiser, more capable, industrious, resourceful, or creative, than us. We also

I was walking home after services on Friday night and passed someone who raised his arm and screamed, “Free Palestine”.

We all have two dimensions: the inner wholesome, beautiful self that is a fount of integrity, honesty, determination, and love.

Over the past week, we have seen anti-Israel college takeovers with protestors openly declaring their desire to kill Jews and

The greatest miracle of our times, on par, perhaps, with that of the Six-Day War, occurred last Saturday night. More