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Unorthodox: How Megillat Esther Justifies the Holiday of Purim

Tzvi Sinensky

04 Mar 2019

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“A Movement, Not a Party” Rabbi Norman Lamm’s Call for the Renewal of Mizrachi

[originally published in Hamizrachi Magazine] This essay, exploring Rabbi Norman Lamm’s deep relationship with the Mizrachi movement, is occasioned by the launch of the new Rabbi Lamm Digital Archive at lammlegacy.org – an online library of more than 5,500 curated documents that shed new light on his leadership,

03 Oct 2025 5 min read

The American who might have been Chief Rabbi

Originally published in The Jewish Chronicle, https://www.thejc.com/judaism/the-american-who-might-have-been-chief-rabbi-esjjhudj. The launch of a new website dedicated to the legacy of Rabbi Dr Norman Lamm (1927–2020) invites us to recall the deep and sometimes unexpected bonds between this American rabbinic giant and the Jewish community of Britain.

21 Sep 2025 3 min read

Rabbi Lamm and Rabbi Gifter

Many know the headline-grabbing “Gifter slaughters Lamm for Passover” speech from 1988. But the archives now show that Rav Gifter and Rabbi Lamm’s relationship went back at least three decades. I joined Rabbi Moshe Kurtz’s podcast to share the newly revealed correspondences revealing more context for the episode.

17 Sep 2025

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