The Rebbetzin's Husband

This old family photo resurfaced recently; it is believed to come from the retirement party of my great-uncle, Professor Naftali (Harry) Tur...

From time to time, I hear parents and teachers debating the value of teaching elementary school and high school students their Judaic studie...

The other day, while in the beit midrash, I overheard a high school student ask his rebbe, "If you had a person from Amalek in fro...

I wrote the following for this week's Toronto Torah . It's an idea that occurred to me only in the last few days, and I find it comp...

Last week, I heard a high school rebbe relate to his students the standard explanations for why Jews eat dairy on Shavuos, including the ide...

I subscribe to fundraising-related emails from Guidestar , a great site for non-profits. After Shavuot I found a Guidestar email in my inbox...

Almost two years ago,  I posted "Phishing for Jews, Part I" about a scam in which the traditional false email of "I'm ou...

I was asked to speak this Shabbos, and I 've c o me up with the following draft text. [You may recognize the first idea from this 2009 ...

And here are the last two acts of this Shiur Theatre performance. We needed to oversimplify some issues for both Islam and Judaism in the in...