The Rebbetzin's Husband

When I was learning to drive, someone – I believe it was my older brother – gave me advice I have never forgotten. I was at an all-way Stop ...

[This week's Haveil Havalim is here !] [ Make sure to read this article to the end – a Forward shout-out for our shul’s annual chulent ...

I have established a tradition of delivering an Adar derashah in verse; this is now the third year of this chazakah (although it is not a ne...

[ The new Kosher Cooking Carnival is here ! ] I routinely stand out as a Jew, but it can still be uncomfortable. Earlier this week I spent a...

This is something of a rant on behalf of Gabbaim around the world. I was an addict of newspaper comics for many years, even though I knew th...

Stipulation: Judaism endorses and nurtures the creative spirit. Certainly, Rav Soloveitchik and others pointed out that the biblical instruc...

[Haveil Havalim is here !] Yes, it’s my birthday. That means I am now – shudder – 37 . Why is 37 a number to cause shuddering? You can watc...

Star athlete Alex Rodriguez would like to be judged for his single moment of contrition, rather than his career of steroid use. He is trying...

[ For reference, to explain Eruv in over-simplified but functional terms: An Eruv is a series of walls, punctuated with doorways, which sur...

A while back (in response to my post on Choosing a Rabbi ) I was asked: “ for what types of questions do you think a person needs to turn to...

[ Note: "leining" refers to singing the Torah’s text according to the "trop" (the traditional cantillation). ] I must ad...

[ This week's Haveil Havalim - quite a well-organized edition - is here ! ] For those who are looking for more substantive material, ple...

Once upon a time, there was a shepherd named Moshe, who was visited by Gd. Gd asked him to lead the Jewish people; Moshe refused. Gd was per...

For those who do not live in the US, or just have not been paying attention: The government of the United States of America has decided that...

( With apologies here and here and especially to Rochel Imenu here . ) Ha'aretz (not!) is reporting that as Israeli elections came to ...

The other day someone was kind of enough to remind me of how I had wronged him years ago – a decade ago, in fact. I apologized long ago. I d...

For the past four years, I have disseminated an annual report for my Benevolent Fund at the end of each fiscal year, via a synagogue mailin...

[ Haveil Havalim #204 is here! ] Today is Super Sunday here in the Lehigh Valley; today, volunteers gather to call prospective donors for ou...

Today, the Jewish people lost one of our most devoted teachers, a man who truly loved all, and sought to help all: Rabbi Noach Weinberg, zt...

A dozen years ago, a rabbi who was among the founders of Edah explained to me that Edah was meant to develop an ideology for Modern Orthodo...