The Jewish Worker

The numbers changed a little. The winners Kadima 29 (up from 28) Likud 12 (up from 11) Meretz 5 (up from 4) The losers: Shas 12 (down from 1...

If Netanyahu is deposed or resigned. If that happens, Labor could make a government with the following parties: Labor - 20 Yisrael Beitenu -...

Th election results had a number of pleasant surprises and not so pleasant surprises. Here is my analysis. Diplomatic Front While Kadima end...

Polling in Israel has become a joke. In Maariv today we have הסקר האחרון: קדימה נחלשת, הימין מתחזק with the right wing up to 54 seats. On t...

The platform is as the name suggests "War on the Banks". Here are some more interesting parties: גיל - a party for retirees. The p...

Even though the Gedolim have banned the internet, יהדות התורה has an internet campaign site where you can watch their campaign videos and l...

My last post sparked a debate about Women's Prayer Groups so I would like to devote a post towards it. This will not be a comprehensive ...

The question is obvious, how could the Jewish people who had just seen all the ניסים and were mekabel the Torah turn to avoda zara so soon a...

The gemara in Bava Barsa (21a-b) has the following story (my rough translation): Yoav killed all the male Amelekites. Dovid Hamelech asked h...

This is a common minhag whose source is not so clear. It can be explained based on the following. The gemara in Brachos 21 states that if yo...

There is an interesting dispute about this. The Manos Halevi explains that the mitzvah is to show friendship (the opposite of what Haman sai...

I posted a nice explanation of this last year.

Have you ever wondered what gedolim looked like in their youth? If you think that they looked like yeshiva boys do today, you are in for a b...

Was anyone there? Was it recorded? Can someone who was there provide a summary of what was said? The reports that I am getting is that it wa...

This question has bothered me for years. The Torah goes into tremendous detail about the construction of the mishkan not once but twice, onc...

I was traveling on business and didn't have much time to post. I am back and will be bakc to my regular posting schedule.

On March 5th R' Feldman, R' Moshe Aharon Shechter, and R' Matisyahu Solomon, are going to be speaking in Teaneck on PERSPECTIVE...

I usually don't like posting about these kinds of topics but today I am making an exception. Someone sent the following to me: The gemar...

I mentioned this idea recently offhand in a previous post ( How did the חרטומים turn blood into water? ) and I bleive that it bears repeati...

The gemara in Kesubos 28b seems to say no. The gemara there is discussing testimony which allows a person to eat Teruma. The gemara brings a...