Rabbis To Battle Smoking In Haredi Public Let's hope that this ban is as effective as the recent concert ban. (The cynic in me says no,...

Last week, Yossi Ginzberg wrote an excellent guest post for this blog on why gedolim fail. His basic thesis is that due to the global natu...

It's very commonly said that you never know when a life-changing moment is going to occur. Sure, there are some of those moments that a...

The age old question of dinosaurs (pun intended) was brought up in an Imamother thread recently. A poster took her son to the museum where...

This guest post was sent to me by Yossi Ginzberg. It deals with how our relationship with our gedolim have changed over the years. I'l...

Walter didn't have bus service to school this morning, so he and I traveled on the train together this morning - him to school and me to...

I don't normally do "blog roundups", but there were a number of great posts that I just don't have the time to comment on ...

Bluke, at The Jewish Worker , has two interesting posts about how the declining dollar is affecting people in Israel. In short, while the I...

Apparently Rav Yitzchak Yosef (Rav Ovadiah Yosef's son) seems to think some of them are . Rav Yosef, it seems, it (rightfully, IMHO) ups...

A 26-year old single woman wrote to Rebbetzin Jungries of the Jewish Press. She's frustrated and tired of being single. Even though e...