The Jewish Worker

The Israeli government (including the current one) has always said no. On most issues I agree with this. If you don't live in the countr...

Bernard Lewis (professor emeritus at Princeton) has a brilliant article about the chances of success for the Annapolis conference. The firs...

I recently saw someone make the following statement on Avoda . I have heard from a reliable source, in the name of Dayan Abramsky, that ...

Believe it or not Olmert is giving the PA armored cars. PM agrees to give PA 25 armored cars . Every day that passes he sinks to a new low. ...

In last week's parsha (ויצא) we have the story of the birth of Dina. Rashi there comments (based on the Medrash) that Leah understood th...

A short time ago Yated Neeman printed a nasty caricature criticizing Shas. They were heavily criticized by Shas as well as by some in the A...

The Gemara in Rosh Hashana (11a) seems to say that they came on Sukkos (or according to Tosafos 2 days before Sukkos) and that is when the w...

If you just read parshas לך לך you would think that first Hashem told Avraham to go to Eretz Yisroel, then came the story with לוט etc, and ...

Yated Neeman on Friday printed a very nasty caricature about Shas on Friday. This may lead to a full blown war between the Sefardi and Ashka...

have now been started against Prime Minister Olmert. I know that many times an investigation is started and does not lead to an indictment a...

In a television interview, Abbas said the Palestinians want to establish a state on 6,205 square kilometers of the West Bank and Gaza Strip....

We all just started saying משיב הרוח ומוריד הגשם, should we say geshem or gashem? R' Yaakov Kamenetsky says that it should be geshem. He...

Much of this is taken from last years posts, however, I added some additional material. As now is succah building time I would like to post ...

This is something that the Charedi world has not yet learned. The Charedi world makes everything into a big issue and fight. A perfect examp...

See my post from 2 years ago Why is Rosh Hashana before Yom Kippur?

The Gemara in Rosh Hashana (34a) seems to offer 3 possibilities. 1. What we call a תרועה 2. What we call a שברים 3. What we call שברים-תרועה...

Wednesday night we are all going to start saying המלך הקדוש, what does it really mean? I refer you to an old post What does המלך הקדוש mean?...

The following ad appeared in yesterday's Yated Neeman.

Every day we say the שיר של יום which is what the לויים said in the Beis Hamikdash. The Gemara in Rosh Hashana (31a) details the שיר של יום ...

The Mishna in Rosh Hashana (29b) states that they blew shofar in the mikdash but not בגבולין (for our purposes outside of Yerushalayim, ther...