The Rebbetzin's Husband

Imagine your brother owes one million dollars, doesn’t have the means to re-pay it, and stands to lose his home. You, for your part, don’t h...

Haveil Havalim 147 is up! Thanks for the links. About a month ago, in the course of looking at different communities for my prospective mov...

What is the goal of a Shul Youth Program? Realistically, every shul is different; some have a largely yeshiva-educated clientele, others a l...

I cannot stand Parshat Shmot. I fear reading it. It drives me berserk – and especially this year. Call this hubris, but I overly identify wi...

Baseball's steroid users remind me of the old Jack Benny joke: The mugger asks, “Your money or your life,” to which you reply, “Let me t...

I wrote an opinion article regarding my White House/Chanukah trip, and it ran in the Allentown Morning Call on Thursday, December 13. They e...

There's nothing groundbreaking here, just a few observations on the way kiruv is done, triggered by an article on New Jew. Last week, Ne...

The chamber is beautifully appointed, a fittingly luxurious bedroom for the viceroy’s father… but illness burdens its sole occupant. Yaakov,...

Side note: I will be interviewed briefly on our local NPR station, WDIY 88.1 FM, tonight at 6:30 PM. The show is called “ Lehigh Valley Disc...

This, unlike much of the other material posted so far on this blog, was not a derashah; it’s just a thought which may, one day, make it into...

The Derashah: The story of the site of the Beit haMikdash Thousands of years ago, they say, two brothers lived on either side of a hill. One...

Note: This was the third of three speeches delivered in honor of Israel's 60th birthday. The derashah: Dealing with a non-Jewish minorit...

The Derashah: Zecharyah’s Yom Ketanot With just four words the prophet Zecharyah summed up a problem which plagued the Jews of his generatio...

Trip to the White House The White House Chanukah celebration was fantastic. Among other highlights: Caren and I toured the White House “Shel...

Why a blog? A few reasons: Reason 1 . Part of being a rabbi is being an educator. In that role, I want to teach, to inform, to challenge, to...