Literally.
Yesterday I was walking in Meah Shearim for a few minutes, and right there on the street corner, there was a pile of little cages, each one containing a chicken or three. Kaparot refers to the custom of slaughtering a chicken on Yom Kippur eve and giving it to someone poor. Although it should not [...]

Read this article from Yitzchok Adlerstein of Cross Currents

On September 23rd, an article was published in the Israeli newspaper Maariv. The original, entitled And the World was Silent (hebrew) is here. It was translated into English by a blogger named Imshin (intro, page 1, page 2, page 3). Here is a quote from the first page of the article, giving a [...]

I have heard the following joke told more than once:
Question: How do you make a small fortune in Israel?
Answer: Make aliyah with a large fortune
The implicit assumption in this joke (which I have found to be present in both Americans and Israelis) is that if you are frum, you will be better off financially living [...]

A couple of weeks ago, there was a parent’s night at the ma’on (daycare center for babies) in preparation of the beginning of the school year. I was busy with something that night, so Adina went alone. With Moshe’s bedtime at around 6-7pm, he obvisously wouldn’t be coming, but we thought that we might try [...]

Now this one definitely beats the famous 2am mosquito massacre that happened three nights ago, the ant infestations that appear after food is ont he floor for two minutes, the “silverfish”…there is mamash a scorpion crawling around in our halogen lightbulb fixture. Never seen that one before.

This morning, the host of my favorite Israeli morning radio show (Yedidya Me’ir on Radio Kol Chai) begain with the following:
“The big news of the day is summarized by the headline in the newspaper Maariv: ???? ????, ???? ?? (A President Goes, a President Comes). No, we are not talking about President Katzav. Rather, the [...]