The Jewish Worker

Of the Jewish population in Israel, 64% fasted and 46% davened/went to shul on Yom Kippur.

Today's daf (Berachos 54) has 2 interesting discussions which relate to the size of Og. First the Gemara has a story that Og wanted to d...

2 months ago I posted about this and various people suggested some possible halachic justifications. In today's Yated Neeman there was n...

Northwestern’s newest big man is a hard-working, yarmulke-wearing potential steal Aaron Liberman attended an 86-student Jewish high schoo...

In the OU Torah tidbits this past week the following ad appeared: Carry and Cash will connect people who have packages to send to people ...

And the woman should be home for the children in the afternoon. This all sounds great except that who is going to pay for this? The husban...

It will be very interesting to see what happens. Here is a graph depicting the meteoric rise in the number of draft exemptions over the las...

Channel 10 in Israel did an undercover investigation into Charedim working off the books to avoid the army and to not pay taxes. They put ...

I posted a few days ago about electronic water meters and can they be used on Shabbos. A number of people suggested that this should be pe...

Recently two 102 year olds passed away, R' Elyashiv and Benzion Netanyahu (the father of the Prime Minister). Although they lived to the...

The events of today, and in fact the events of past year where the Likud has been trying to get Kadima MKs to defect exposes the complete ba...

In an interesting letter in yesterday's Yated Neeman a writer brought up this issue. He claimed that in some places in Israel they have ...

The Gemara in Bava Basra 7b discusses the need for building walls around a settlement. Since walls are for communal protection, all residen...

Father's Lament for Son Who Should've Served - One Ultra-Orthodox Father Sees Good Side of Israeli Draft This is a really interestin...

According to the Charedi press the answer is yes and yes. See the Yeshiva World News for an example of this where this is called a שעת השמד...

See חילונים, מה פתאום נזכרתם אחרי 64 שנה Don't these people realize that they are doing more harm then good? Don't they realize t...

R' Yitzchak Adlerstein wrote a very important article about what is going in America with tuition,  A New, Ugly Wrinkle in the Tuition ...

This is exactly what Hamodia did this past week. They wrote a long article about the problems /abuses of passengers on the light rail in Jer...