Mind-reading in the blogosphere
This is a letter that was sent to me privately: I am not blaming you for what happened in Bet Shemesh. However, the antipathy that is displayed by many teachers cannot be helping the...
Incident in Ramat Beit Shemesh
I imagine that most of us know Americans who made aliyah and settled in Beit Shemesh. These are in the main people who can be characterized as Leumi Dati, with a bit of charedi...
A little match on Yom Yerushalayim
In honor of Yom Yerushalayim, which was celebrated yesterday, I lit a small match in a great darkness. Before I explain, some background: Every day I listen to a local Miami radio station, WIOD,...
The Jewish Position?
A note from a reader tells me that I may have been too nice to the Rabbi turned TV Consultant who wrote a letter saying that she, too, was upset with the portrayal of...
Confessions of a Frustrated TV Consultant
Yaakov Menken’s recent postings (which I just saw, having returned from my son’s wedding and related festivities) set off a cascade of inner reactions. If you are at all a public figure here in...
Correcting the Record
A friend and dedicated reader passed along the following, which relates to my earlier comments concerning a Rabbi as TV Consultant: Dear Cleveland Jewish News, I saw the article you ran in today’s paper...
Viennese Pastries vs. Pickled Herring
On May 30 I posted below some sketchy thoughts (“American versus Israeli haredi sector”) I had in my initial reaction to a Jerusalem Post op-ed by Elliot Jager “American haredi triumph” . There were...
The Effect of our Environment
A few months ago, my wife and I spent Shabbos in Flatbush (a Brooklyn neighborhood with a large Orthodox community) for the first time in well over a decade. At some point, my wife...
On Dissing Moslems
My friend Shira Schmidt’s May 18 post about an English barrister who made derogatory comments about Moslems at a dinner party provoked a great deal of comment. Notably absent, however, was much curiosity about...
American vs Israeli haredi sector
If you would like to read a glowing description of the haredi sector in the U.S. and the Agudath Israel of America, to the detriment of that sector in Eretz Israel, read the op-ed...
