Category: General

Yisrael Valis, the young charedi man accused of abusing and murdering his son, is now on trial in Jerusalem. When last I wrote about this, some criticized me for what they deemed an entirely...

This was sent to me; I look forward to crediting the original author once I know who wrote it. 1. Avoid riding in automobiles because they are responsible for 20 percent of all fatal...

Some computers crash, but only figuratively. My laptop crashed last week, but literally. Entangled in its own wires, it crashed to the floor with a sickening thud. The repairman told me it would take...

An article in the June issue of Commentary Magazine entitled “Whatever Happened to the Jewish people?” details the plummeting ethnic identity of American Jews. The findings of sociologist Stephen Cohen and historian Jack Wertheimer...

The tragic death last week of a one-year-old baby girl in Ashdod triggered tense confrontations between chareidi demonstrators and police in Ashdod and Meah Shearim. Southern District Attorney Iska Leibowitz initially insisted on nothing...

From the Religion News Service: PASTOR RICK WARREN TO MAKE FIRST-EVER APPEARANCE IN A SYNAGOGUE — Saddleback Church founder and best-selling author of The Purpose-Driven Life invited to Sinai Temple, following ground-breaking meeting with...

In America, the law is pretty straightforward: if you submit a financial dispute to binding arbitration, it really doesn’t matter who the arbitrators are. We can submit a dispute to Larry, Moe and Curly,...

A few years ago, a television producer asked me to help locate interesting converts to Judaism for a documentary he was preparing for Israel TV. In the course of the project I met some...

Several days ago, an observant Jewish writer who identifies himself by the nom-de-plume “Jameel Rashid” wrote a post on his blog (which he calls “the Muqata“) concerning the above topic. He sent an email...

One of the joys of living in Israel for a Jew from Amerca is the way in which the rhythms of the Jewish calendar are felt in the public square. Almost all families sit...