Category: General

I was a bit surprised to read an Orthodox doctor’s assessment and recommendation for the Orthodox community regarding vaccinations, in Times of Israel. Here is my response, posted in Times of Israel as well....

Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s ill-timed tweet proved again that not everything that is thought should be said, and not everything that is said should be published/tweeted. Tyson thought he was being helpful when he pointed...

Shoshana Keats Jaskoll’s Times of Israel blog post, The rotten state of Orthodoxy, has gone viral. I felt that it really demanded a response, and here it is. As with other cross-posted articles, all...

Imagine the scene, Moshe, the long-lost son of Amram works his way to the makeshift stage. He hasn’t been seen in over sixty years and rumor has it, he has a message from God. All of the Jewish People are gathered, eager to hear what he has to say.

Is there a “Judeo-Christian” tradition, or is the very notion an insult to zealous believers in each of those two faiths? Is there a common platform of real substance, or was the idea invented...

I will say it straight out. The President should not have told members of The Squad to go back to where they came from. It is disappointing that he used language that – whatever...

Israeli Education Minister Rabbi Rafi Peretz was recently attacked by non-Orthodox leaders for describing assimilation and intermarriage in the US as a “second Holocaust”. Here is Coalition for Jewish Values’ reaction to the attacks...

My recent Yated article about Young Israel of Toco Hills (YITH) seceding from National Council of Young Israel (NCYI) elicited quite a firestorm on social media, to put it mildly. I would like to briefly address...

This was a somewhat busy week in terms of writing – something I have not really done for a long while. Here is my Times of Israel post about AOC’s concentration camps remarks. Here...