The Rebbetzin's Husband

In my previous post , I said: I believe that naivete has an important place in our lives, in moving us from an ugly world to a more attrac...

What's on my mind after Rosh Hashanah and Shabbos Shuvah? Three music videos that I like not because their music is outstandingly good...

Several years ago, researchers at Baylor University in the US published a study entitled, "American Piety in the 21 st century"....

Adrian Peterson is a top-level, record-setting, award-winning star athlete . He is also a father of six children, and this past week he was ...

(From this week's Toronto Torah , hot off the presses) Several years ago, late night comedian and band leader Paul Shaffer and the OU ...

The past week has been humbling for me. Eight days ago, my family completed our move to a new home, and I spent a great deal of time hauling...

Note: I've been holding this post for a long time, because at least three of Toronto's synagogues went through a search for an Assis...

At Purim time, many months ago, attendees of a weekly shiur [class] of mine got together and purchased a gift certificate for two, for my Re...

A while back, I was speaking to a young rabbi who was entering his first pulpit, and he mentioned that in a shul he would have the freedom ...

For the near future, at least, I've decided to start a new blog. I'm not sure how long I will keep at it, but it's at least an o...

I thank those who have been emailing me to check in. Thank Gd, all is well. I am actually making progress on a sefer, finally! Yes, I stil...

Two weeks ago, I presented a shiur on halachic issues involved in caring for a patient who is experiencing a level of dementia. Along the wa...

I've been thinking a lot about Tehillim Fatigue - the way that our prayers for our kidnapped boys, Gilad, Eyal and Naftali, lose their s...

A thought I've written up for Toronto Torah, on Parshat Korach: After the collapse of Korach's rebellion, G-d presents Moshe wi...

A friend needed the tune for Yetziv Pisgam (a.k.a. Yatziv Pisgam), so I searched on-line to find a recording for him. Surprisingly, it wasn...

And here is the concluding act, in which we note that the Community of "Community Prayer" is not only the current generation, but...