Wikipedia probably needs no introduction. An open-source encyclopedia which anyone can edit that is pretty darn good overall, great sometime...

Menachem Butler at AJHistory writes Spend twenty minutes talking to me and somehow Marcus Jastrow will come up in conversation. Don't t...

From Ridiculous Comments Made on Shabbat "The Jewish Week might be ossur to read." Why? Because it is not an Orthodox publicatio...

Okay, this is not Ya'akov's signet ring but according to the auctioneer it is dated 1750BCE, is Egyptian and belonged to a Yaqub Hr...

Cool JNUL page with lots of Jewish liturgy and music samples. Wanna know how they counted the Omer in Galicia or Morocco? What did "Eh...

The early authorities (Geonim, Rishonim) explained that the Talmud gets its authority from the fact that it was accepted by kelal Yisrael. T...

I've never hidden that I'm not a big fan of adults entertaining childlike beliefs about God and Torah because I contend that a grown...

In the very interesting introduction to Genesis: Translation and Commentary by Robert Alter there is a bit about the nature of the Hebrew ...

For example, if Expert A asserts a particular scientific or economic position, and Rebuttal Expert B responds solely by calling Expert A nam...

R. Malkiel Kotler 's reputation dogs him.

She'asitani isha ve-lo ish " Woman's Siddur " al pi Nussach Italy, 1471 see pg 14. Hat tip: Krum as a Bagel

DovBear imagines a golden age : " Let's return Judaism to the way it was at the time of the Spanish Rishonim ."

Stay tuned for the publication of Sliding to the Right: The Contest for the Future of American Orthodox Judaism by Samuel Heilman , sure to ...

How are the seminal figures of the past viewed in large segments of contemporary Orthodoxy? In the contemporary historiography there are thr...

Lately (okay, over the past two days) the J-Blogosphere has been abuzz about the idea of nishtanu hateva , that 'nature changes', wh...

Yutopia gives a good counterpoint to Dr. Hayyim Soloveitchik's 'Rupture and Reconstruction' . He points out, correctly, that th...

When I was a kid the Agudah had a widely disseminated series of black and white photos of gedolim. It included, obviously, people like the C...

The Gemara Sotah 22b discusses false piety. The Maharsha says that this includes people who wear black clothing. Wink, wink, vehamevin yavi...

The great gene dealer in the sky, kavyachol, dealt me the prematurely graying card. So it was amusing this past shabbos when I overheard my ...

Bloghead has a good post about "the dramatic drop in the number of Diaspora Jews who can speak Hebrew properly." The truth is tha...