Let me start off by saying this: I know that there are plenty of beggars in the frum community. I generally take it at face value that the...

I've learned that the frum community is not nearly as homogenous as I thought (and I didn't think it was all that homogenous to begi...

Heshy cooked up a real doozy this time... He maintains that the reason that New York was hit by terrorists on September 11, 2001, was becau...

Things I learned in Yeshiva... And things I didn't learn in Yeshiva... There was a major Posek in the Middle Ages known as the Rambam. H...

I find it ironic that on the same day that Heshy posts his categoric "forbidden to donate organs..." diatribe, the OU put out a p...

It's often amazed me how we've come to be known as "Orthodox" Jews, despite how inappropriate the title is. Orthodox, of c...

DovBear's recent post about Shidduchim got me thinking to an episode earlier in my life. I happened to consider myself very lucky. Why,...

I find it very interesting how some people are willing to accept the concept of Nishtanu Ha-Tevaim (nature has changed) in the broadest sens...

I have always had an interest in genealogy. For many years I've enjoyed the thrill of looking up the lives that my ancestors led; hunti...

I know, I know... it's like shooting fish in a barrel, but someone's gotta do it. :) I was looking at the header of Heshy's blog...