In my professional life, I work on website development as a software engineer. I work on the side sometimes doing freelance work making personal websites for different people. I recently finished a website that might be of interest: the new homepage for Rabbi Michael Green. It includes a blog and podcast and is built using [...]

I saw a number of incidents recently that are representative of a certain mode of behavior that I notice a lot around here. Though these happened on my yishuv (current or former), I have seen the exact same thing many many times in other yishuvim, towns, highways and cities. Incident 1: I was walking Moshe [...]

More good news related to Judicial reforms in Israel (something that I am a big fan of): The government on Sunday approved Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann’s controversial proposal to amend the Basic Law on the Judiciary in order to limit the Supreme Court’s power… Friedmann’s proposal would only allow the Supreme Court to strike down [...]

Well, the latest round in the Nefesh b’Nefesh vs. Jewish Agency feud has ended in favor of NBN: Jewish Agency Signs Pact: Nefesh B’Nefesh Takes Over Aliyah: The Jewish Agency has ended a long-standing dispute with the highly successful Nefesh B’Nefesh (NBN) organization and has agreed to allow it to manage the immigration of Jews [...]