Category: General

An astute Catholic reader, noting the recent discussion of religion in the schools here, alerted me to another case now going on in California. The University of California, which is that state’s public university...

What started as a poorly constructed blog entry of mine has morphed into an ongoing exchange with David Klinghoffer.  Some of it has been public; some in the form of private correspondence between us. ...

Mrs. Schmidt’s title is excellent, and I’m glad that she took me to task for not considering the original Hebrew version of the article in question. I agree with most of what Mrs. Schmidt...

15 b Tevet I have encountered several postings on Cross-Currents that seem to be tinged somewhat with avak paranoia. For example, Yaakov Menken wrote at length on Jan. 5 about an article in a...

The battle certainly isn’t over, as CNN reports that a California high school is the latest to face a lawsuit over Intelligent Design. As it happens, they probably deserve to lose. The teacher is...

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s relationship with religious Jews has been an up and down one over the years – of late mostly down. I was at a Shalom Zachor one week ago at which...

Government officials, bureaucrats, the media, the doctors – everyone has been urging us to pray for the welfare of PM Sharon. And so , as rarely before, the Land is alive with the sound...

While we appreciate your vote in the JIB awards, it’s also a good time to upgrade our look — assuming we’d like to win the Design award, and on merit at that. Maybe Menachem‘s...

In the early 1930s, Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler set himself the task of battling the cult of science of his time. To his private students in London – mostly teenagers from Orthodox homes who...

That rabbi being me, a week ago.  A good part of my responsibilities at the Simon Wiesenthal Center (which is where I am when not at Yeshiva of Los Angeles or Loyola Law School...