Author: Yaakov Menken

According to news reports, this is what was said by close associates of Ariel Sharon tonight. It is as if we end the evening as we started the morning, with thoughts of death. The...

From the Jerusalem Post: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a serious stroke and had been anesthetized, the director general of Hadassah Ein Karem hospital in Jerusalem said late Wednesday. The prime minister was reportedly...

News services are reporting that Israeli PM Ariel Sharon was rushed to the hospital, only hours before he was scheduled to undergo a procedure to correct a heart defect. They say he is conscious...

Anyone who has been following the news is aware that 13 miners were trapped in a coal mine after an explosion on Monday. Last night, just around midnight, it was announced that 12 of...

David Klinghoffer has an article on National Review Online, “It’s God or Darwin” (forwarded to me by R’ Yonason Rosenblum). Klinghoffer presents the case that the leading Darwinists are as anti-religion as the ID...

This morning Shira Schmidt had an op-ed column in the Jerusalem Post, which she told us about here. Her thesis was pretty straightforward: wouldn’t you expect a conference on, for example, “Ultra-Orthodox Jewry and...

We just installed WordPress 2.0. Of course there are a few kinks that we need to work out, but thus far it looks good. Perhaps the best new feature is the inclusion of built-in...

For centuries, Jewish communities have adopted the music of the surrounding culture and made it their own. Some popular Shabbos zemiros are reported to have their musical origins in Russian or German taverns, and...

From David Bernstein at the well-known Volokh Conspiracy blog: Next time you hear someone criticizing Israel’s “checkpoints” for Palestinians, think about this: a surprise checkpoint set up Thursday prevented an Islamic Jihad terrorist from...

After so many articles in the Jewish media praising the latest fad, it is a relief to read one like “Pop Goes The Hipster Judaism Bubble” from The Jewish Week. “There’s something really appealing...