The Jewish Worker

After serving as a disaster of a defense minister for a year, Amir Peretz now wants to move on to the finance ministry and destroy the econo...

Jonathan Rosenblum has a very important article whose focus is that boys learning in yeshiva need to help clean for Pesach as well. In fact...

The Gemara says that when there is no קרבן פסח then מרור is only מדרבנן. There is a fundamental dispute between Tosafos and the Rambam what ...

The Mishan at the beginning of the third perek of מכות mentions the issur of making the שמן המשחה for your own purposes. I saw a fascinatin...

The gemara says that money can be split 3 ways between the עדים זוממים each paying a third while מלקות cannot be split between them, each on...

Last week's Mishpacha magazine had a fascinating article explaining the various groups of קנאים in Meah Shearim. Here are some highlight...

The following ad was printed in yesterday's Yated Neeman (Wednesday כ"ד אדר). Below is my translation of the ad: Important announce...

The gemara states (רבא) that we learn out from בשגגה that אומר מותר does not go to גלות. The rishonim there ask as follows. The Gemara in Sh...

I am learning מכות these days so from time to time I am going to post things that came up in my learning of מכות that seem interesting.

continued from here ... Some rishonim have a different version of Rashi. They understand that according to Rashi you need to bake the מצה on...

There is a famous שיטת Rashi that the Matzas mitzva needs to be baked erev Pesach after חצות, otherwise you are not יוצא. Rashi gets this fr...

Believe it or not only 3% of the people would vote for Olmert for Prime Minister. This is not a mistake, only 3%. Amir Peretz is even lower ...

This claim was raised again by the Charedi MK's today regarding the plan to give extra money to northern schools. The government is givi...

This is an ad that El Al printed in Wednesday's Yated Neeman in Israel.

Here are 2 interesting articles about this issue. Did Vashti have a Tail? Reflections on Teaching Midrash Aggadah in Elementary Day Schools ...

Today's and continuing to tomorrow's daf (Megilla 21b,22a), discusses how to split up the aliyas on Rosh Chodesh. There are 4 aliyas...

Well over 20,000 shekel and this is not including the wedding, an apartment, sheva berachos, etc. This is just the engagement period. Here i...

After the resignation of the Police Chief, the Internal Security Minister, Avi Dichter, appointed Yaakov Ganot as his replacement. Yaakov Ga...

I saw here that a group of Rabbonim have prohibited visiting (and kal vachomer living in) Miami Beach because of the pritzus. The question ...

Jonathan Rosenblum wrote a very important article Look Before You Leap about the new Charedi "life insurance" plan in Israel. As ...