My blog software (b2evolution) lets me see what are the searches that people use to reach the blog. About 75% come from Google, 24% from MSN and Yahoo. Most of the search terms have the word “aliyah” in them (in a straight Google search for “aliyah”, I am currently 13). Occasionally, someone reaches me through [...]

I have seen this story before, but it is easy to forget. I do not know who wrote it (if you search for it on the Internet it appears with a few slightly different versions, but no author). A story tells of two friends who were walking through the desert. During some point of the [...]

In follow-up to my recent post recalling a conversation I had with a teacher of mine a number of years ago, take a look at Religious Zionism Debate V from Rav Gil Student at Hirhurim. In this post, Rav Gil gives his own definitions to how people view Zionism today. According to his definitions, the [...]

A number of years ago while I was still in school, I attended a shiur given on Messila Yesharim, given by a Rabbi who traveled more than an hour each way once a week. Sometime in the middle of the year, the men in the shiur were invited to spend a Shabbat with him and [...]

From Zemanim.org comes a very useful site that – given a departure and arrival location, date and time – will calculate the amount of time after take-off until you reach significant halachic times like Sof Zman Kriat Shema, Tefilla, Sunrise, Sunset. (Here is an explanation of how these are calculated). Very useful for traveling to [...]

Read about the 1.5 Million Population Gap between the actual palestinian population (approximately 2.4 million) and the fictional palestinian population (approximately 3.8 million) publicized by the Palestinian Authority (and used by left-wingers in Israel to scare everyone into thinking that in 10 years there will be more Arabs in Israel than Jews). From PADemographics.com: The [...]

They have a long way to go. Check out this article. And happy “Catastrophe Day” to everyone! May we merit many similar “catastrophes” in the future.

Today I went on my very first over-night, out-of-town business trip. My extremely generous, religiously-sensitive and nice company has arranged in advance that all of my meals will be Kosher. We are just outside of Chicago, so I checked with out office manager, and she told me the name of the caterer – since they [...]

Check out this story on Arutz-Sheva: “…My opinion is that we should do to terrorists what America did to Afghanistan,??? Mason told Israel National Radio’s Tovia Singer. “You go in and if they persist in bombing your buildings and destroying your lives and sending in suicide bombers, then there should be an unconditional determination to [...]

I know it’s a little late, but this will only take a minute.