To Pinchas and to everyone who has just returned Home (thank you Nefesh B’Nefesh!!). Oh, and also to my son, Moshe Betzalel, on receiving his brit milah yesterday and becoming a full-fledged Jew.

See this post from Pinchas in which he tells about the email his boss sent out to company when he was told that Pinchas is going to make aliyah.

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 [...]

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

Check it out.

I haven’t done it yet. Someday soon I hope.

…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 [...]

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 [...]

Check out this cool video from Divrei Moshe.

What a sad day for the Jewish people and for the State of Israel.