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Haftarah Chayei Sarah: Adoniyahu or Shlomo
In Politics, Timing is everything...
1 year, 10 months ago
Parshas Chayei Sarah: Oy shidduchim, shidduchim
What's more important, good middos or halachic observance?
1 year, 11 months ago
The Aleinu Prayer: What is its context?
Three options: a.) Absolute Monotheism b.) Modified Monotheism c.) Absolute Polytheism
1 year, 11 months ago
The Hasmoneans and the Question of Drafting the Yeshiva Bachurim
How he Hasmonean rulers fought their wars and handled the "Bnei Torah Problem" 2,000 years ago
1 year, 11 months ago
Haftarah VaYera: אֱלִישָׁע מְחַיֶּה הַמֵּת
How come Elisha's servant Gechazi did not believe his master could revive the child?
1 year, 11 months ago
The Iranian-Israel Conflict in light of interesting internal developments in Iran
Which is stronger in Iranian Universities? Hatred of Israel, or hatred of the Arabs and support of Israel? Some surprising developments
1 year, 11 months ago
Parshas VaYera: The הַשְׁגָּחָה פְּרָטִית in the sequence of events in the Abraham story
Abraham is not opposed by the Canaanites because he is a childless nomad...at first...
1 year, 11 months ago
R Shimon Sofer, Pt 2: Walking a political tightrope for Galician Jews trapped between Germans, Ukrainians, and Poles
For the upcoming Genazym auction on November 17, 2024
1 year, 11 months ago
R Shimon Sofer (1820-1883), Pt. 1: The complexities of Jewish ethnic politics in Central Europe (Galicia) in the 19th century
For the upcoming Genazym auction on November 17, 2024
1 year, 11 months ago
Parshas Lech Lecha: The conquest of Semitic Israel by Hamitic invaders
Abraham, the Semite, is told by G-d to go to Israel, from which the Semites are being driven out and dispossessed by Canaanite invaders
1 year, 11 months ago