We are different
Today, Erev Shabbos Nachamu, my brother wrote the following, which I am taking the liberty of posting here: Newspaper-reading Jews all over America have doubtless found it quite vexing that in the reporting of...
Author: Toby Katz
“Rejoice” with the NY Times–part II
I mentioned that I’d read two articles in the NY Times. If you haven’t already, please read my other post first. Here’s the second one: August 15, 2005 Gazans Harbor Modest Dreams Amid Concerns...
“Preparing to Rejoice” — NY Times
Two articles in the NY Times in the last few days caught my attention. The first: August 12, 2005 After Decades of Disappointment, Gazans Are Preparing to Rejoice By GREG MYRE Already from the...
Prayer rally at the Kotel last Wednesday
My friends, Aharon and Jennifer Ungar, went on Aliyah about a year ago. Aharon has been keeping a journal of their experiences in Israel, which he sends to his friends. The following is from...
Comparing our troubles to theirs
Reader Eliezer Barzilai wrote: Many Americans were horrified by our Supreme Court’s transparently politically motivated decision in the presidential election. It was the Florida Supreme Court, attempting to throw the election to Al Gore,...
Yahrzeit of Rav Nachman Bulman, zt”l
Tonight, 26 Tammuz, is my father’s third yahrzeit. In my Jewish Action article about my father, which appeared a few months after his petira, I wrote: “Working with his close friend, Eliyahu Kitov, he...
“How can you be pro-life and believe in the death penalty?”
DovBear wrote: “Why kill a convicted murderer if there is a chance new evidence might one day exonerate him,” I don’t think a murderer should be executed unless his guilt is proven beyond a...
More on “Did the autopsy find no soul?”
I have a hard time separating soul from mind.–Lisa Terri Schiavo’s body once had belonged to a person, but it hadn’t for a long time before she stopped breathing –Murky If I had the...
Did the Autopsy Find No Soul?
I wrote about Terri Schiavo while she was dying. Today the autopsy report came out. Todd Schnitt, a local radio talk show host here in Miami, was among many in the commentariat who crowed...
Mind-reading in the blogosphere
This is a letter that was sent to me privately: I am not blaming you for what happened in Bet Shemesh. However, the antipathy that is displayed by many teachers cannot be helping the...
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