My Obiter Dicta

Well, my longe response to Avirama Golan was published in HaZofe . Sorry to thoser you who can't read Hebrew. No time to translate. על י...

AT LAST! Pigs can fly, hell is frozen, the slipper finally fits,and Impossible Dreams really can come true.The Red Sox have won the World Se...

I was so infuriated by Avirama Golan's article that I dashed off a reply to Haaretz on Line . The reply was actually published (both on...

One of the less noted aspects of the controversy over the Oslo Program, was that it played itself out on two levels. The better known was th...

The past few days I've been walking around on the brink of tears. Israel is undergoing contortions and convulsions around the Prime Mini...

Words are superfluous at this sublime moment where hope, loyalty, devotion to a goal and stubborn persistence have paid off! Go Sox! Do it...

All of the discussion of rabbis, leadership, Halakhah and spirituality highlights just how much I miss the Rov zt"l. I"m not just ...

Recently, my town's chat group has been all abuzz about the question of whether we need to have neighborhood rabbis, or even rabbis in o...

Your own Pope Innocent III Action Figure !!! Imagine, on your desk, as you write about Church Policy Toward the Jews in Europe, you can ...

Q.E.D. just published an hysterical, though all too true, survival guide on academic conferences. Highly Recommended.