Been having some emails about Rabbi Luft... Nechama wrote:Do you have written somewhere on your blog, about the Nazi song that became Moshiach, Moshiach ..... ? I would like to send someone that information.I responded:I'm pretty sure this is the song you're looking for. http://www.youtube.com/watch...

I’m glad I’ll never be susceptible to that charge. "You have nothing to lose!" I’m often told by people in positions of authority. They envy my freedom. I can speak my mind. I can engage with dangerous people. I don’t have to worry about my reputation. Can you imagi...

From The Jerusalem Post: Widespread assimilation is the greatest threat to Jewish existence in Europe, the continent’s top rabbis concluded at their meeting in Paris last week, calling for a return to traditional Jewish family values and major rabbinical intervention. On the opposite side of t...

We get letters with blogworthy and insightful suggestions so here are the best guest submissions received yesterday... in honor of the holiday...a real megillah. Henry sends this from the Atlantic which he notes is an insightful analysis--we agree... How the Crash Will Reshape America - The Atlantic...

Here’s my first post about Rabbi David Brenner. His response. I then reached out to Rabbi Brenner via Facebook. Tonight I sent him these questions and he promptly emailed back his response. LF: How should Kellogs have reacted when their spokesmodel Michael Phelps was photographed smoking marij...

With all the bad new lately for my alma mater Yeshiva University, it was nice to see the positive news that the school is ranked by US News the 9th most popular in the nation, ahead of (other) highly esteemed institutions like Brown and Columbia. The bigger story in this list is that the Mormon scho...

From Beth Jacob: To the Los Angeles Jewish Community, ORA: The Organization for the Resolution of Agunot, is organizing a rally to protest the abusive behavior of Meir Kin, who is mesarev le-din by the Rabbinical Council of California (RCC). Our posek, Rav Hershel Schachter, shlit"a, fully supp...

Three Orthodox rabbis Hershel Billet, Kalman Topp, Aaron Glatt)  sent out this letter: Dear Friends As you well know, we are in the midst of a financial crisis unprecedented during our lifetimes. As a community we must take stock of the circumstances and react to the new realities in a responsi...

I have sympathy for those who have lost money with Madoff. But this latest treatment is too much. Why? Because among the chronicle criers and whiners (who have every right to express their grief and angst) there should have been a fair balance of quotes or clips of the sensible people who undoubtedl...

The prospect fills me with horror but if I could save the whole Jewish people by committing one tiny eeny wheeny indiscretion with a really hot and powerful shiksa who loved to read books, I suppose I could muster the moral fortitude to overcome my instinctive revulsion at the unsanctioned intimacy ...