The Jewish Worker

This has become a very popular chumra in Israel in the past few years. In fact, for the past few years the major bakeries accomodated this c...

quotes Chazal (Gemara in Nidda) as follows: איש מזריע בו לובן שממנו גידים ועצמות ... אשא מזרעת אודם שממנו עור בשר ודם The man provides the w...

For those people who don't shave during Sefira, this Friday is an opportunity to shave. Because it is both Rosh Chodesh and Erev Shabbos...

The בעל המאור in Pesachim gives a cryptic answer, he states that it is only זכר למקדש and therefore there is no שהחיינו. This is difficult b...

It is pretty clear from all reports that the new government will have 27+ ministers (7 out of 19 Labor MK's are going to be Ministers!)....

At the end of last week's parsha (שמיני) the pasuk says והתקדשתם והייתם קדושים. The gemara in berachos coments on this that והייתם קדושי...

Update I finally saw the pashkevilli and it did not say what the JPost article said. Nowhere is there a psak that he is innocent, rather it ...

The mitzvah's of Pesach all revolve around eating, eating, matzah, korban pesach etc. In fact, Matzah is the only time that we eat a che...

I would like to point out a number of differences. I. When can you make Kiddush? On Friday night the Gemara in Berachos states that a person...

With the changing of the clock both in Israel and in America many people will once again start making early Shabbos. Here are 2 posts from l...

I posted this last year, I think this is worth repeating. The Beis Halevi explains the רשע's question as follows. He says that the רשע i...

It is now pretty clear who is going to be in the next government. The basis of the coalition will be: Kadima - 29 Labor - 19 Yisrael Beitenu...

This is a fascinating interview in the YU Commentator which covers a lot of the major issues of the day.

Any American citizen with children living and working in Israel should file a US tax return and get money (in the form of the child tax cred...

The pasuk uses a strange phrase, 'לרצונו לפני ה, The standard pshat is as Rashi comments that כופין אותו עד שיאמר רוצה אני, that every J...

I am not a big fan of Harretz (to put it mildly), but on economic issues they are ok. Their analysis is the same as mine, the election resul...

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...