Spring Cleaning
by Dovid Landesman My mother-in-law is an avid reader of The Jerusalem Post and awaits its daily delivery with great anticipation. As she peruses it, however, she becomes increasingly angry at the consistent chareidi...
A New, Poignant Wrinkle in the “Quality of Life” Issue
Is a mother who suffered devastating brain damage during delivery still a mother? Should her triplet toddlers have any contact with her, or be spared the shock and potential guilt? Should the court accept...
The Song Was True
“The Man From Vilna” (Abie Rottenberg; Journeys IV) moved people to tears. Many people assumed that it belonged to the genre of stories that Rabbi Berel Wein calls ones “that may not have happened,...
The Tea Partiers and Us
Successful tactics used by the media to discredit those whom they don’t like — with surprising success. Have you been fooled?
The Artificial Divide
Reform Judaism Blog: The commonly held view of the polarized division between Orthodox and non-Orthodox is in fact far from accurate. Those who become Orthodox are not being tricked — they are finding something they’ve been looking for.
Giving Up the Struggle for Life – Second Thoughts
[Please note an important clarification by the husband of the subject of the the article. It appears in the comments that follow the article.] She had become a palliative care physician, having survived a...
Geulah and Responsibility
Two Pesach motifs, each one individually difficult to understand, become even more strained when considered together. Chazal tell us that Bnei Yisrael had to be redeemed, in a sense, just then. They had descended...
How To Write A Proper Petition
Find attorneys who know the case, inside and out. Consult with frum attorneys, who know how words are taken by the people expected to read the petition, and what impressions about the Orthodox community...
How Not To Write a Petition
I received a few emails asking me to sign a petition asking for the release of Sholom Rubashkin for the first days of Pesach. Mr. Rubashkin has not yet been sentenced, and there are...
Honorifics and Honor
The rabbah-rousers do apparently seek to serve – but their master seems to be feminism, not Judaism.