The Rebbetzin's Husband

Every once in a while I get the urge to go back to school, generally either for a law degree or a doctorate in history, philosophy, English ...

A few weeks ago I delivered a shiur on the role of women in settling then-Palestine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, linking it to...

Not much time for original writing today, but here are excerpts from a few recent ScienceDaily reports I have found interesting: How Chimps ...

My primary reasons for attending this year's RCA Convention were that I was asked to present a session, and that I wanted to re-connect ...

[ For non-Francophones, the title of this post means "Late - 7:30 PM". We ended up taking off at 8 PM or so. ] And so it begins, t...

[ A new, excellent edition of Haveil Havalim is here ] One of the most difficult aspects of the rabbinate is the need - job requirement, rea...

[ This week's Toronto Torah is here ! ] A brief dyspeptic thought on our educational system, in both schools and synagogues. A few weeks...

I’ve been sending out daily “Torah Thought” emails for 13 years now; these are just straight texts, almost always without editorial comment...

I always cry on Yom haZikaron [Israel's Memorial Day], and this year was no exception as I listened to Cheryl Mandel, mother of Daniel M...

One of the big advantages of Life Outside the Rabbinate is the shul-hopping experience. To be sure, we have a main shul, where we pay dues a...

I wrote the following article for YU's "Yom ha'Atzmaut To-Go," but since that publication will not be issued in print (ava...

[ This week's Toronto Torah is here ! ] I'm delivering a shiur on Shabbos (in Hamilton) about "The Pioneer Women of Palestine...

Daniel Pink presents an interesting TED talk here on how to motivate workers. Essentially, he is in favor of self-motivation, and having e...

[ Update: I noticed a burst of traffic coming to this page from Facebook today; my thanks to the linker! If anyone could tell me where the l...

Has this ever happened to you? Standing on line at the supermarket checkout, davening next to someone in shul, sitting next to someone at a ...

[ This week’s Haveil Havalim is here ] I'm having a very busy few days as the kollel resumes programming and as my counterparts at vario...

With Justice Stevens retiring, people are talking about Solicitor General Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court, again (see 2004 and 2009 ). S...

I am a member of the RCA committee that generated ethical guidelines for Kosher Food Certification last year. A major component of our docum...

Here's the video, from LATMA: The agrammatic pseudo-Aramaic makes translation a little choppy, but here goes: One house, one house, that...

More about Pesach in the next few days, I hope, but a little about this morning for now. Making our post-Pesach way back to Toronto, we stop...