Oh, man, there are some weeks that the Yated is a gold mine of blog material. This week is one of them. I could probably spend the whole wee...

A cursory reading of the Jewish "populist media" (blogs, letters to the editors of newspapers, etc.) would seem to indicate that t...

No, not for me (thank God). I have a non-religious relative who divorced her husband a few years ago. While the couple did obtain a civil d...

An alert reader brought to my attention a thread on Imamother . In this thread, a person comments that a relative of theirs (not an immedia...

Last week, I posted about how some sections of our community seem to be "frozen in time." Oddly enough, I was given just the per...

There's an old joke that goes like this: One Shabbos morning, a fellow walks into a shul that he's never been in before. He finds t...

The world is a changing placing. The changes are happening very rapidly and will continue to increase at an ever-increasing rate. Let me g...

Cheryl Kupfer has a sad article in last week's Jewish Press regarding the sad state of dating in the frum community. She starts out th...

If so, you may want to avoid it in the future. It turns out that the park used to be used as a Potter's field in the early 19th centur...

Over the past few days, violence has broken out in Ramat Beit Shemesh, as some thugs have apparently decided that they were empowered to act...