The Rebbetzin's Husband

About two weeks ago, I received a long email from a yeshiva-educated man from a Modern Orthodox community. In the last ten years, he wrote,...

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 found this interesting advice for a Rosh Kollel, at Life in Israel, interesting ] A couple of weeks ago, during a shiur, I was asked how...

Several weeks ago I came across interesting 13th century comments recorded in the Shiltei Giborim [on the Rif] to Avodah Zarah 20. These com...

A couple of weeks ago I finished reading Neal Stephenson's Anathem . It was mostly a good read, although there were definite portions in...

In a post back in March ( "Anti-Academic Judaism" ) I discussed a trend, in some Jewish circles, against the intellectual, analyti...

[ Take a look at Circling the Gates of Jerusalem on Adar , at the Muqata ] Some months back, a friend noted the rising popularity of a rabbi...

What Soren Kierkegaard did for Avraham’s faith in Fear and Trembling , someone with an equally eloquent pen ought to do for Moshe’s defiance...

The New Birth Megachurch in Lithonia, Georgia. The Christian Book Association’s annual conference. Ultimate Christian Wrestling. A Christian...

A wise rabbi once advised me that I would have to choose between “rabbinic social work” and a more intellectual rabbinate. The more I see, t...