…do not give them any of the following “advice” (or variations thereof): “You had better get some sleep now – once the baby comes you wont get any sleep” “Trust me: take vacation before the baby comes. Because after the baby comes, you wont be going anywhere for a long time.” As much as you [...]

The 19th and last article from the True Role Models series of article by Dov Gilor of the Jewish Press has just been published online. This series of articles gives over “stories of American Jews who came to Israel for ideological and religious reasons in the past years. The purpose of the series is to [...]

This was adapted from something in Rav Neventzal’s new sefer “Yerushalayim B’Moadeha – Pesach” (see Page 32, Footnote 2). (I recommend it to all, along with his othet sefarim). One step in our preparation for Pesach is to get rid of our chametz (leavened bread). We clean, scrub, vaccuum, and then throw it all away. [...]

See this (long but) interesting post from RenReb. The topic is how synagogue rabbis (and teachers, educators, etc) should not be treated like plain employees who need to bend their collective wills to those of the people who pay the bills (board of directors, congregants, parents…btw, that rhyme was totally unintentional). Rather, once hired, the [...]

One thing I definitely will not be missing in Eretz Yisrael are Kiddush Clubs: On Saturday morning in synagogues around the world, kiddush club members celebrated the completion of a seven-and-a-half-month cycle of weekly drinking. The celebration, called Siyum HaShots, was marked by the downing of various whiskeys, bourbons, ryes, rums and brandies until every [...]

I have a sefer called Bedikat Mazon Kehilchata which is all about checking your food to make sure that there are no bugs. Bugs are bad. If you eat a bug, you have just transgressed 4-6 biblical commandments. Definitely Bad News for the Jews (BNFTJ). For most of my life I did not really know [...]