Blessed are you, YHWH, our God, King of existence, King of all Earth, who sanctifies Israel and the Day of Remembrance. The central blessing of
The arguments on this blog and others have gotten fierce the past few weeks, and both sides (myself included) have been using very strong rhetoric.
I’m sorry to bring up the same old point again, but apparently I’m missing something. A past president of the OU, and a former executive
Maariv got the scoop on what might be the most infuriating news story of the year. Within hours after the Lebanon War started, while thousands
Last night, about two hundred klezmer fans and me jumped on a boat in the East River and set sail down to New York Harbor.
War begins when the individual dies. In my last war ethics post, I tried to understand how we can reconcile Jewish and Western notions of
Haaretz reports “Witnesses in Baalbek said they saw dozens of IAF helicopters hovering over the city. They said the private hospital in Baalbek, filled with
One of the many disturbing things about living in Israel, is how easily hypothetical situations become real ones. You know, all of those fun discussions