Refinement
A reader took me to task for referring to spitters and bodily-assaulters as “unspeakable primitives.” He saw the word primitive in the sense of old, pre-modern, and rightly argued that having derech eretz has...
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Charitable Giving and the Recession
The deep global recession has forced many to reconsider the way they give their tzedakah. It is more than likely that some changes will stay with us even after the health of the world...
A. Y. Karelitz M.D.
by Dovid Landesman I have an acquaintance in Los Angeles, a urologist who is also a well-respected talmid chacham. To establish his credentials let me say that he has completed three cycles as the...
Dear Esther And Fellow Travellers
by Rabbi Dovid Landesman First of all, my thankful appreciation to all of you for what turned out to be a stimulating, open and civil exchange of ideas in response to my posting The...
The Israeli Health Ministry and the Rehabilitation of Daniel Chwolson
[thanks to Rabbi Dr. David Fox, LA, for the lead] The story has been told for well over a century. The Israeli Health Ministry just added a new twist to it. Daniel Abramovich Chwolson...
Yankel ZT”L
[Rabbi Dovid Landesman is a veteran mechanech and the mechaber of a sefer on Netziv.] Today – Yom ha-Zikaron L’chayalei Tzahal – is one of the most difficult days for me in the calendar...
Tzniyus Patrols, Abuse, Violence and Getting Personal about Torah
The intrepid Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz published an op-ed in the Jerusalem Post recently hailing the sentencing of an operative for a self-appointed tzniyus vaad in Yerushalayim to four years in jail. He then republished...
Piece Plan
“Orthodoxy” is simply the name that the Reform and Conservative movements gave to what “Judaism” meant for millennia prior – to what those movements sought to supplant when they birthed themselves.
ISRAELI ELECTIONS 2009
It is more than a week after the Israeli elections, and the nature of the next government is still not known. That already suggests that the next prime minister, whether Binyamin Netanyahu (likely) or...
Hypocrisies, Imagined and Real
I hope my wife and kids don’t find out that I consider it kosher to force 16-year-old girls to work 20 hours a day.
In fact, I was shocked at myself for having said such a thing – or, at least, I would have been had I actually said it.
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