The Rebbetzin's Husband

[Jack's Gaza Update 13 is here . Important reading.] Adam ben Gila. That’s the name of someone I’ve never met, someone about whom I know...

I am so tired of seeing journalists embarrass themselves pretending they know anything about Gaza's history. The problem, I think, is t...

[Jack's Update 11 is here .] Dear world, I understand that you are concerned about the state of things in Gaza. The rising number of dea...

Dear Citizens of Gaza, Damn. And a lot stronger words, too. The headlines are out - Israeli shell crashes into UN school . The school was be...

[ Jack's latest (#9.5) is here. ] [ New: Jack now has Update #10 available here. ] Dear Citizens of Gaza, This is harsher than my usual ...

[Jack's Update #9 is here .] As the war in Gaza continues , England's TimesOnline has a column here by Rabbi Michael Lerner, insist...

[Click here for Jack's latest Gaza update (#8). Click here for this week's Haveil Havalim, which includes many posts on Gaza.] I...

[Jack's Gaza Update 7.5 is here .] This is a dated topic, but the column I submitted to the Allentown Morning Call on the topic just ran...

Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai predicted it, during the Roman era of two thousand years ago. He said, “שלש מתנות טובות נתן הקב"ה לישראל, וכולן...

As the war in Gaza moves to the conclusion of its fifth day... as thousands of Kassam rockets, as well as Katyusha and Grad rockets, have ra...

[Jack's Gaza Roundup, Part Three is here . Great job again, Jack.] I know there are populations around the world who love the United Nat...

[Jack's latest update on Gaza is here .] Over at IsraellyCool , Shukri makes the following comment: Are you calling the Gazans murderers...

[Haveil Havalim is here .] [Jack's roundup of Gaza-related posts is here .] In my pre-adolescent years, my outlook on Rabbis-and-Current...

I've lost track of how many “Now we've had it” operations we've seen over the years. There was Lebanon in the summer of '06,...

There is a near-universal practice, in traditional Orthodox synagogues, of blessing the local government and praying to Gd to provide it cou...

One of the most cliché rabbinic job interview questions is, “Tell us about something you don’t do well,” or, “What do you find to be your gr...

[ Haveil Havalim is here ! ] I recall that last year an environmentalist group destroyed a lot of paper and expended a great deal of computi...

I’ve been speaking publicly for twenty years or more. I started with divrei torah at my shul’s auxiliary minyan and shiurim when the shul of...

Ehud Barak wants to know: Do you feel lucky? This from the Jerusalem Post's website this evening: Not long after launching an advertis...

If you would glance at my bio photograph , you would see a young, dynamic rabbi (that would be me) holding a baby (our second child). If yo...