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Friend of the blog (not Gil)(obviously) wrote to tell me he was at a little shinding recently where he heard the following story: Two men w...

DovBear is one of the only blogs where kofrim and maamin talk to each other without moderation or interference. Now we're stepping it u...

It gives me no pleasure to announce that Gil of Hirhurim, one of our best and most consistent Jewish bloggers, has given up, thrown in the t...

Crossposted at The Muqata . (Great Belz Shul in Jerusalem) YNET Reports today that a seat near the Belzer Rebbe for the High Holy Days in t...

Its the second day of school in Sederot, and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Education Minister Yuli Tamir promised that it would be ...

I make an excellent hamburger. I use the very best ground meat and after adding nothing that might overwhelm the flavor of the meat, I shape...

Public Service Announcement Reminder for DovBear Readers: It's Labor Day today -- PLEASE put your white straw hats away. And go back to ...

CrossPosted at the Muqata . In the [Israeli 1948] War of Independence, I served as an infantry soldier in the religious platoon in the 22cnd...

In Hollywood, Florida, a public school has opened which teaches Judaism. Except that it doesn’t, because that would interfere with the divis...

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נו הָרַכָּה בְךָ וְהָעֲנֻגָּה, אֲשֶׁר לֹא-נִסְּתָה כַף-רַגְלָהּ הַצֵּג עַל-הָאָרֶץ, מֵהִתְעַנֵּג, וּמֵרֹךְ--תֵּרַע עֵינָהּ בְּאִישׁ חֵיקָהּ,...

As the commenters noted on my post - 'We live in a crazy world' , I didn't propose shutting down blogs. While it would be nearl...

On a recent guest post , Akiva lamented about the current state of affairs on the comment threads. He Wrote: "This no longer seems to ...

The Jewish daughter is a princess, or so we're told in the handbook and orientation speeches of every Beis Yaakov. Reading a review of ...

Our gracious host, Dovbear sent me the following email: In the name of being more "authentic" has Judaism become less "aut...

In the U.S. there is a perennial debate over the proper role of the courts, particularly the Supreme Court, vis-a-vis the other branches of ...

While I was out, I see another Republican Congressman got busted for sex crimes. This time, the perp is Larry Craig [R. Idaho] and according...