Last Thursday’s Jerusalem Post carried a particularly nasty attack on the chareidi community by columnist Larry Derfner. Derfner can be abrasive, but would hardly be classified as an inveterate chareidi-baiter. In a recent response...

How much do you know about what is taking place in Darfur? When you saw the title of this piece, did a red light flash in your brain indicating “skip this one”? Well, if...

Move over, Hillary. You have some steep competition. Hillary and Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau are both unannounced candidates for the office of President of their respective countries. About four weeks ago, Ehud Olmet announced...

Continuing from yesterday — those who have not yet read it will probably want to begin with Part I. But here’s what you really need to know: Larry Derfner submitted a column claiming stood...

Thanks go to two people for making this article possible — to Shlomo Nissenbaum for sending me the link to the Larry Derfner article, and to Ezzie Goldish for filling me in on the...

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...