MAILBAG: Commercializing the Sanctuary: Why Cash Advance Ads in Shuls Cross a Dangerous Line

To the Editors of YWN, Walking into a prominent Five Towns shul recently, I was disturbed to find coffee cups bearing advertisements for a cash advance company. This casual commercialization of a sanctuary demands an urgent re-evaluation of what our institutions tolerate and endorse. How is this a clean profession? The Talmud explicitly teaches that […]