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Hi. Sorry I've been awol, I'm hoping to get back to posting more regularly on this site in the near future. In the meantime, I will ...

This article , about the efforts on the part of a Hamptons Orthodox community to build an eruv, is outrageous. It has a lot in common with a...

Ben Smith, whose coverage of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination deserves some sort of prize, posts an image that brought a...

I guess something had to really annoy me to get me out of hibernation - and this is it: Whose bright idea was it to run a bunch of little le...

This is classic (emphasis all mine): Assemblyman Dov Hikind yesterday predicted that Jewish voters would make "a mass movement toward ...

The NYT covers the concert ban I posted about here . Not much new there, but a few quick notes: This comment is troubling: Sheya Mendlowitz,...

On the heels of one local Rabbi who made what can be misconstrued as an inappropriate comment regarding Barack Obama a few weeks back, anot...

It's about time : Leading rabbis and the Jerusalem Municipality have joined forces in a battle against the widespread habit of smoking i...

Reading about the recent Jewish music concert ban and the resulting cancellation of a widely promoted upcoming Jewish music concert in Madi...

This story likely warmed the hearts of NY Times readers: Junior High School 22, in the South Bronx, had run through six principals in just ...

The always-interesting Freakonomics guys (Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner) had a fascinating column in this weekend's NYTimes M...

Much is being made of the scheduling of Nevada's presidential caucuses on a Saturday, which affects observant Jews as well as Seventh D...

A friend handed me Naomi Ragen's latest, The Saturday Wife , last week, and I figured it would be worth a read - as her other efforts ha...

This article in yesterday's NYT raises some interesting issues regarding the changing demographics of Lakewood, NJ. The township has wi...

I urge everyone to read this great post by Gil, where he respectfully takes apart some statements made by by Agudah spokesman Rabbi Avi Sha...

Yeshiva World posts a welcome update to this post : Last week, Yeshivaworld posted an article from the Times Herald Record regarding member...

A new study seems to suggest that couples suffering from infertility should not waste their time or money on less invasive fertility treatm...

Here : It has been 62 years since deaf and mute Irena Walulewicz risked her life to save a Jewish neighbor from the Nazis, but her heroism w...

I was asked to post about this urgent call for help: Dear Friend: My, neighbor, Zev Wolff, a 5-year-old boy, needs your help now. This beaut...

On the heels of a study that shows that kids who do not get enough sleep have higher obesity rates, comes this : Researchers presented a co...

From Yeshiva World: Given the option of spending the first night of Chanukah with family and friends, or going to a meeting, Monticello scho...

I thought this was interesting: Observing Shabbat but have to call your grandmother? Have to have a cup of coffee when you come back from w...

So apparently, XGH has joined the elite little club of bloggers being threatened with legal action. As the story goes, Webads placed an ad o...

I just finished a quick but well-written book over the weekend that I thought I would recommend to my readers. The title is Not Me by Micha...