The Rebbetzin's Husband

[ I wrote this four years ago, in a different forum, in the week before Tisha b'Av. My life is different now; I no longer serve as a shu...

I wrote this in a different forum quite a few years ago, and still get a smile out of reading it... So you are the proud recipients of a new...

[ I love this post at Life in Israel , even though we didn’t build them in the first place. ] Okay, so everyone who has known me during the...

NOTE: If you arrived here from my Beit Midrash email of February 4, the article you want is here ; I apologize. A few different people ha...

[ This week's Toronto Torah is here ! ] [ Many of my recent posts have been more on the fluff side, and so I thought I would post tonigh...

Warning: Bad mood ahead. The following outrageous Q and A exchange on Kipa illustrates the danger of trusting an “Ask the Rabbi” website, ...

Back in May I wrote a post, “ Why shuls eat their rabbis ,” on the tendency of congregations to consume their rabbis (with or without ketchu...

I learned a new term yesterday, courtesy of CNN.com : Fish storm. The article covered predictions for the year’s hurricane season, and the p...

It’s that time of year again – Elul is coming, and with it comes the spectre of Rabbinic Burnout as the rabbi realizes he really ought to ha...