The Rebbetzin's Husband

I've been trying to figure out a way to express this for some time. Then last week, I began a new chabura, and found what I think is the...

From my vantage point, it seems that Avshalom, King Yoshiyahu and the American Democratic Party all fell victim to a common leadership mista...

A few people have tried to console me post-election by noting that Jewish tradition credits G-d as the coronator of kings, הממליך מלכים. S...

Driving through rural Western Pennsylvania this week, I twice found myself behind cars with Donald Trump bumper stickers. It was a bit of su...

With Justice Stevens retiring, people are talking about Solicitor General Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court, again (see 2004 and 2009 ). S...

I don't want to be yet another humbug, rain-on-the-parade blogger bashing the choice of President Barack Obama for the Nobel Peace Prize...

Ruth the Moabite had been ruined by her association with Jews; she had married a wealthy young man, and then he had died, along with his bro...

First, let’s drop all of the faux-surprise about Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter jumping to the Democratic Party . Anyone who’s been payi...

For those who do not live in the US, or just have not been paying attention: The government of the United States of America has decided that...

It's hard to use Google to find information on Kirsten Gillibrand and her views on the Middle East (particularly because another candida...

CNN reports here that the Obama White House website has a new face, and they are certainly correct. Long on policy and substance, this sit...

Per CNN , Eric Holder is President-Elect Barack Obama’s choice for Attorney General. My gut instinct is that this is, as they say, “bad for ...

There are a dozen or more things I should be doing tonight, including- Preparing Tuesday morning’s “Practical Ethics” shiur; Preparing Tuesd...

[ Haveil Havalim is out here . ] While I should be writing my Yom Kippur day derashah… All right, I just hung up after my third call from an...

( updated 12:06 PM ) I was thoroughly disheartened after watching last night’s speech by Senator Barack Obama. I heard a lot of beautiful pr...

This is a column I submitted to The Allentown Morning Call after Sunday night's The Compassion Forum at Messiah College. They ran it her...

Yes, to those who spotted me, I was at the Compassion Forum in Messiah College last night, courtesy of the Orthodox Union. They found me a v...

[ This week's Haveil Havalim is up here ; and I have an unexpected link from the Jewish Cooking Carnival to boot! ] Jews are heir to a ...

If I had to choose between Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and if my deciding issue were Israel, I’m not sure I’d go with with Hi...

I submitted the following column to the Allentown Morning Call on Friday Feb. 29, and it ran today. (They changed the headline in the versio...