Dilbert asks Why does it have to be so hard to learn gemara? The Torah(five books of Moses) is written on parchment without any vowels or...

At Cross Currents R. Yitzchok Adlerstein posts regarding whether the widespread practice of writing בס"ד on letters, notes etc. consti...

A comment from someone called Chicago on R.Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer's blog: The problem is for those of us (most Jews in fact) who str...

Fkm posts a response to my earlier post regarding the documentary hypthesis. Basically, the thrust of my argument (or position if you want...

I am at heart. But that and a buckfitty will get me a ride on the subway. At least in theory. While poring through the archives I came acros...

Hirhurim commentter Shmuel writes about the increasingly prevalent practice by some of assuming that midrashic or rishonic statements that ...

Some positions of R. Shach on Yated Ne'eman's web site.

Hundreds of young Israeli women looking for husbands have been placing their underwear on the tomb of a venerated rabbi in the hopes that ...

Before shabbos I received a fund raising brochure from Kupat Ha'ir . If you've gotten them yourself then you are familiar with the t...

The Birobidzhan 'Jewish Autonomous Region' still "exists?" Who knew. As you can see, they host such cultural events as a...

I recently posted two pieces on the origin of the Karaite sect ( I , II ). I came across an interesting review from 1938 by Karaite expert L...

Why blog? at Maven Yavin.

Menachem with the scoop about Marc B. Shapiro's forthcoming book about Saul Lieberman, called, 'Saul Lieberman and the Orthodox....

Back over on the DH / TC post at Cross-Currents commenter Charles B. Hall posted: It is clear that arguing over vav’s and yud’s misses th...

Someone asked me about this image at the top of my blog. Obviously it spells "On the Main Line" in a paleo-Hebrew type font. He as...

( You have no idea how difficult it was to find a photo of this! ) An interesting ma'aseh sh-haya. Once upon a time there was an antiqui...

Krum and Just Passing Through memed me . This means that I had to hit shuffle on my mp3 player and post the 15 songs that popped up in orde...

A post on Cross-Currents by R. Yaakov Menken seeks to demonstrate the Documentary Hypothesis to be null due to the textual accuracy of the ...

There is a very interesting speech ( read it, really ) by Rabbi Francis Nataf, Educational Director of the Cardozo Academy called "Reli...