It's very odd.  Four people have contacted me this week about past posts and a relative mentioned the blog to me at a simcha recently.  ...

I was following the coverage of yesterday's decision to grant Shaul Spitzer, the young man convicted of assault in the arson attempt aga...

At the start of Elul, three prominent Rabbis in the Yeshiva community - Rabbis Shmuel Kaminetzky, Mattisyahu Salomon and Malkiel Kotler, dis...

As I'm finishing up Shacharis , the two dollar bills, tired and worn from circulation lay on the table in front of me. I put those bil...

Once again, the Chareidi news is in the news. There has been quite a bit of discussion in the past about the deletion of women from pictur...

A YouTube video was recently released dealing with the dangers of telling Lashon HaRah on the internet.  However, the video completely misse...

My parents raised me to believe that one must take the feelings of others into account when speaking and doing things.  Before you open your...

I suppose it's one thing to be afraid of heretical ideas (supposed or actual) that might cause one to lose faith in their principles.  I...

I've been going through a bit of a rough patch in my life.  Things aren't exactly going according to plan in various circles of my l...

Rabbi Yair Hoffman wrote a recent editorial (publish on 5TJT and republished on YWN ) about the dangers of smoking among our youth.   He st...