We Toil, and They Toil
This item, from David Bedein in Efrat, more than speaks for itself. A newsworthy side-bar to the funeral of the four Israeli Arabs who were killed on the bus in Shfaram in Thursday was...
Comparing our troubles to theirs
Reader Eliezer Barzilai wrote: Many Americans were horrified by our Supreme Court’s transparently politically motivated decision in the presidential election. It was the Florida Supreme Court, attempting to throw the election to Al Gore,...
Civil Liberties and the Disengagement
Also from SHARING THE PAIN, Hamodia, August 5, 2005 THE SUFFERING OF THE GAZA RESIDENTS is only part of the tragedy. Another aspect is the sustained assault on civil liberties resulting from the disengagement....
More on Disengagement
From SHARING THE PAIN, Hamodia, August 5, 2005 Agudath Israel of America published last week “A Call to Share the Pain of Acheinu Bais Yisrael,” which called on all Jews “to pause and share...
A Rosh Yeshiva on Disengagement
[This is the second time in as many entries that I find myself posting shortly after another who is greater in chochmah (wisdom), who wrote something that everyone should see. I just hope that...
A Tale of Two Worlds
Rav Moshe zt”l repeatedly referred to American as a medinah shel chesed – a country of lovingkindness, particularly when it came to being hospitable to traditional Jews. Sitting with the Los Angeles Police Commissioner...
Do the Charedim Care About the Dati Leumi?
The title of this post is intended to ask a question, not to provide the answer. I am in Israel for most of the summer and this is an extraordinarily painful time for many,...
Truth in Announcing
This morning, President George Bush performed a “recess appointment,” bypassing the Senate confirmation process and sending John Bolton to the United Nations. The politics of this could be discussed ad nauseum, and preferably not...
Yahrzeit of Rav Nachman Bulman, zt”l
Tonight, 26 Tammuz, is my father’s third yahrzeit. In my Jewish Action article about my father, which appeared a few months after his petira, I wrote: “Working with his close friend, Eliyahu Kitov, he...
Misunderstood?
Rarely have I felt that a piece of mine was so misunderstood as the one from Mishpacha Magazine entitled “Trauma Ahead” posted a couple of weeks ago. More than a few readers accused me...