The Rebbetzin's Husband

When I was a synagogue rabbi, I bemoaned the fact that so much of what I did was death-centered. Well, the past couple of weeks have been a ...

This past Friday, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the federal ban on assisting suicide violates the rights of Canadian citizens. As t...

Back in February, Time ran a cover story on Ray Kurzweil's prediction that technology will cure aging in the coming decades. This evolu...

[ Interesting quote: "There is no need to be frummer than Bais Yaakov." ] I was going to write about this several weeks ago, but s...

We’re having work done on some of the kids’ bedrooms, with the side effect of our bedroom becoming a storage center ( Canadians: storage cen...

Early in my Rhode Island years, I helped the chevra kadisha move the body of a young man who had passed away. I’ve always had a death-phobia...

[ I feel like I’ve had too many death posts of late; I apologize, but it's the order of the day. ] I don’t use profanity; the gemara is ...

It’s been another deathfest these past couple of weeks, after a good two months in which, thank Gd, people stayed mostly healthy. I’ve lost ...

Catherine Mayer writes in Time about one of Ten Ideas that are Changing the World : Amortality. She writes, “The defining characteristic of...