| 29 Dec 2011 |
They do not speak in my name, nor I in theirs |
| 16 Nov 2011 |
Some scrolls regarding proper treatment of scrolls |
| 06 May 2011 |
Charity for crooks |
| 09 Nov 2010 |
Breaking in my sleep |
| 03 Aug 2010 |
Translation from PR-speak to English of the Anti-Defamation League’s “Statement On Islamic Community Center Near Ground Zero” |
| 26 Jul 2010 |
I am not hip enough to come up with a proper headline to this post |
| 19 Jul 2010 |
Sorry, Bibi |
| 25 Apr 2010 |
Maybe he thought it was a commentary on Leviticus |
| 29 Jan 2010 |
Thinking outside the beis medrash |
| 12 Jan 2010 |
Dances With Monotheism |
| 16 Dec 2009 |
I would like to register a meta-complaint |
| 15 Dec 2009 |
The Internet interprets a cherem as damage and routes around it |
| 13 Dec 2009 |
Thank God we are free, unlike this poor sod |
| 21 Oct 2009 |
Cain’s best friend |
| 09 Sep 2009 |
In which your humble servant strikes a blow for ecumenicism |
| 08 Sep 2009 |
This is the season when Jews should reflect on traditional words of wisdom... |
| 08 Sep 2009 |
Down with Helvetian imperialism! |
| 10 Jul 2009 |
Peace between Jews and Arabs is the easy part |
| 15 Jun 2009 |
How do you say “Arrr!” in Ladino? |
| 08 Jun 2009 |
Rediscovering Talmudic logic |
| 22 Apr 2009 |
Can you serve humanity on your kosher china? |
| 13 Apr 2009 |
Middle matzah mystery |
| 25 Mar 2009 |
A big squishy center |
| 19 Mar 2009 |
Rambam, repentance, and racism |
| 13 Mar 2009 |
The pot, the kettle, and the civil rights commission |
| 06 Mar 2009 |
Self-determination, where “self” means “other” |
| 16 Jan 2009 |
Fatherly advice from the first century |
| 30 Dec 2008 |
Because I ought to say something about the mess in Gaza |
| 05 Dec 2008 |
Your fair and balanced religious news from the Middle East |
| 14 Sep 2008 |
Being and nobodyness |
| 14 Sep 2008 |
A drash in honor of our 10th anniversary |
| 31 Aug 2008 |
I am my blog's and my blog is mine |
| 09 Aug 2007 |
Bar sinister |
| 26 Jul 2007 |
Denial is not just where Moses got the frogs |
| 17 May 2007 |
Converting the unfaithful: a primer |
| 01 May 2007 |
Maybe if I wrote it in Hebrew...? |
| 20 Apr 2007 |
Priceless |
| 18 Apr 2007 |
He also told the NAACP that he was a great dancer |
| 28 Mar 2007 |
The other "aish ha-Torah" |
| 19 Feb 2007 |
The jig is up |
| 30 Jan 2007 |
Keeping us informed about the Middle East |
| 01 Dec 2006 |
Dept. of curious coincidences |
| 01 Oct 2006 |
A prayer and a legal declaration for Erev Yom Kippur |
| 04 Sep 2006 |
Messianic murder |
| 22 Aug 2006 |
Nothing for something |
| 07 Aug 2006 |
Born on the 9th of Av |
| 01 Aug 2006 |
Sinai and Geneva |
| 26 Jul 2006 |
Not kosher |
| 24 Jul 2006 |
It sucks to be unarmed in the Middle East |
| 19 Jul 2006 |
Unilaterally correct |
| 06 Jul 2006 |
In the United States of America, in the 21st century... |
| 06 Jul 2006 |
Frontiers of ecumenicism |
| 28 Jun 2006 |
Pluralism and hypocrisy |
| 05 Apr 2006 |
Maybe they had slept through their derekh eretz class |
| 03 Mar 2006 |
You won't see this in your Artscroll Chumash |
| 28 Jan 2006 |
Our pre-schooler contemplates weighty themes of Jewish philosophy |
| 25 Jan 2006 |
Only a frum parent… |
| 25 Jan 2006 |
A too-keen-by-half psychological insight |
| 09 Jan 2006 |
Theologically incorrect |
| 08 Jan 2006 |
The God he doesn’t believe in, I don’t believe in either |
| 15 Nov 2005 |
We say it every week, but do we know what it means? |
| 18 Jul 2005 |
The Goldstein Question |
| 25 Apr 2005 |
The season of our cholesterol |
| 21 Sep 2004 |
New! Improved! 100% more divinity! |
| 17 Aug 2004 |
The sacrifices of the sick |
| 30 Jul 2004 |
In defense of the picky single |
| 26 Jul 2004 |
The desirable ones |
| 26 Jul 2004 |
Fighting the last war |
| 05 Jul 2004 |
The first consultant |
| 28 Jun 2004 |
The wages of death are sin |
| 21 Jun 2004 |
Those who do not march in formation |
| 21 Jun 2004 |
The rhetoric of despair |
| 21 Jun 2004 |
Korach the tax protestor |
| 30 May 2004 |
The real test |
| 23 May 2004 |
Duh! |
| 14 May 2004 |
The worst punishment |
| 09 May 2004 |
Know your sheep |
| 07 May 2004 |
Talmudic gun-control, er, sword-control laws |
| 25 Apr 2004 |
Where the rocks are treyf |
| 23 Apr 2004 |
Deaths and distinctions |
| 15 Apr 2004 |
The parody is left as an exercise for the reader |
| 11 Apr 2004 |
The scary thing is, my wife and I can understand most of it |
| 08 Apr 2004 |
Otherwise, it would be a very very long seven days |
| 05 Apr 2004 |
Legal notice |
| 28 Mar 2004 |
Penitence 101 |
| 23 Mar 2004 |
Visualizing the Mishkan |
| 15 Mar 2004 |
Whose nation is this, anyway? |
| 15 Mar 2004 |
The bells, bells, bells, bells, bells |
| 01 Mar 2004 |
Indifferent creation, purposeful creation |
| 25 Feb 2004 |
One cheer for slavery |
| 19 Feb 2004 |
Here comes the Judge |
| 16 Feb 2004 |
Reprinted without comment |
| 16 Feb 2004 |
Cotton Mather should be rolling in his grave |
| 12 Feb 2004 |
“...to the least sinner of them all” |
| 12 Feb 2004 |
Mysteries of Sisera’s mother |
| 26 Jan 2004 |
Orders of desire |
| 13 Jan 2004 |
You beast, you |
| 13 Jan 2004 |
Reproductive immunology and halakha |
| 13 Jan 2004 |
In exile, even within the Land of Israel |
| 07 Jan 2004 |
Good Pharoah or bad Pharoah? |
| 23 Dec 2003 |
...until Ben Zoma explained it to me |
| 23 Dec 2003 |
Seasonal humor |
| 23 Dec 2003 |
Expanding your musical horizons |
| 19 Dec 2003 |
More like Survivor than The Partridge Family |
| 12 Dec 2003 |
A time for deals and a time for donations |
| 11 Dec 2003 |
Grade inflation strikes the Rabbanut |
| 10 Dec 2003 |
And now a word for our deity |
| 28 Nov 2003 |
Was Yitzchak Avinu retarded? |
| 21 Nov 2003 |
Richard M. Stallman, call your rabbi |
| 21 Nov 2003 |
Are unhappy biblical bigynous families all alike? |
| 16 Nov 2003 |
What you can observe from a verb |
| 07 Nov 2003 |
This is not Genesis 16 |
| 31 Oct 2003 |
The power of the nameless ones |
| 30 Oct 2003 |
Chazzerai |
| 21 Oct 2003 |
Warriors, tricksters, and Jews |
| 05 Oct 2003 |
A thought for Yom Kippur |
| 25 Aug 2003 |
Quiquid latine dictum, altum videtur |
| 20 Aug 2003 |
Dr. Laura to God: But what about my needs? |
| 09 Jul 2003 |
Pulpits for sale |
| 20 Jun 2003 |
Manna for something and the fish for free |
| 19 Jun 2003 |
A note regarding the nazirite |
