Related to the upcoming wedding of a friend of mine: in a short post at the Michtavim blog last year about volumes published about/by the renowned Sassoon family -- it was a post about Cecil Roth's dedication"To Adolf Hitler" (see here) -- I discussed the Sassoon family, which hailed from Bombay (In...

I've always found it rather humorous/ironic that while Americans, and other westerners, swear on the Bible, they deny what's written in it. And Israelis, aping what they perceive to be American/Western ideals use the courts to propagate laws denying civil rights to Jews. Three and a half years ago, ...

Erev Shabbath Qodesh Parshath Wayera 5769 So many bloggers have covered this, I am not sure why I am bothering. Actually, yeah, I do know why. There never seems to be enough coverage. If there were, then people would start to wake up, right? Probably not, but I'll give my 10ag anyway. So, Rabinfest ...

The other posting inspired about the power of davening for each other. The Daven Exchange Project runs a web site that matches Jews with similar needs to daven for each other in this powerful fashion. http://davenx.torah.org The site was inspired by Rav Paysach Krohn's story on the Chofetz Chaim Her...

The recent re-opening of the Ohel Yitzchak synagogue near the Temple Mount has again ignited protests from Arabs who claim that Jews are trying to "Judaize" the Old City of Jerusalem. What most people don't realize is that Jews have lived throughout the Old City, not just in the so-called "Jewish Qu...

Headaches, Screaming, Meltdowns, and Real Davening. 1. I had a headache yesterday from about 11 a.m. until 11 p.m. when I went to sleep. The davening was very beautiful (I especially loved Eitan Katz's Shacharis) but I had difficulty holding kup during musaf because of the pounding in my brain. My s...

Photos marked * were taken by the Amazing Yankel ** by CYFried and *** by The Flying Dutch Jew all others were taken by me. After leaving Petersburg over three weeks ago (Have I been gone for so long?) I went to good old Vilnius for a Shabbos.Leaving with the campers the day after Tisha B'Av, we fle...

by Joel Rich Halacha and Medina - Rabbi Y Barth - Authority: link Discussion of exclusions from positions of authority. The Rambam adds Isha to Ger and Akum. R’ Moshe Feinstein thinks he made it up, but there is a genizah document that says no parnas of either sex. Further discussion of seeming ex...

Pamela Geller's excellent interview with Ambassador John Bolton on KFNX Radio-1100 Phoenix has Bolton echoing my post of August 9th 2008, down to my observations about the Administration's pre-occupation with volleyball,while Georgia was being pillaged. My article was deemed to be "too provacative" ...

I sent this email to an anonymous person (really, I don't know who this person is--I was just instructed to write to him as part of an exercise). I hope that none of this comes across as lashon hara because I have nothing but respect for the yeshiva mentioned in this email. On Tisha B'Av, I was dave...