I had the feeling of déjà vu when reading about the controversy involving expunging “Merry Christmas” and substituing a pareve “Seasons Greetings”. I once was zealous about taking Christmas out of the public domain....

Ori Pomerantz wrote: Oral Torah seems to limit capital punishment to the point where it would almost never happen. IIRC, capital punishment requires two witnesses with foreknowledge of the crime who warned the would...

Credit Michelle Malkin for telling us to “keep the focus where it belongs:” not on Stanley “Tookie” Wilson, but his four victims, Albert Owens, Tsai-Shai Yang, Yen-I Yang and Ye-Chen Lin. Nonetheless, I don’t...

Fresh from dealing with Harry Potter and witchcraft, Jewish parents must now pass judgment on the Lion King, coming to a theater near you. Assume, for the moment, that there are no outright halachic...

What kind of cutesie name is Tookie anyway — for a murderer? Why have the media over the last few days tried to make us feel sorry for this creep? The US government sentenced...

News reports indicate that the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, “the top Roman Catholic official in the Holy Land,” planted an olive tree on Sunday in the path of the separation wall being built by...

Long-time readers will remember that Toby Katz loved loved Ushpizin, which depicts an Israeli couple who adopted Orthodoxy (becoming Breslover Chassidim) and who have a pair of criminals — one of whom is an...

Here we go again. Yet another Rabbi thundering away that “calling Conservative Judaism a halachic movement is intellectually dishonest,” and pointing out that there’s not much standing between the commitment to observance of your...

Two Sifrei Torah and a Paroches were stolen from a synagogue in Westwood, CA on Monday night: Two Sefardi Sefer Torah in wooden boxes with the Rimonim. The boxes are white background with pictures...

Arutz-7 reports that “As of today, food may not be sold in Israel without being marked as either meat, dairy or pareve (neither milk nor meat).” A new law to this effect passed its...