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A Guest Post by E. Fink This is based on the book "Fundamentals and Faith" which is based on a lecture series given by R' Yaa...

Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) showing off his 4th grade sense of humor According to a source who attended the meetings, Kyl told ...

The following comment about me was spotted on one of the other blogs. I mean, [your style is] quite vicious and insulting and gloating a l...

Spotted beneath this post Rambam has 13 articles of emuna. It has been said that these declarations are obligatory of any frum Jew. To dis...

“Go home, put your curlers in, and we’ll get a fresh start tomorrow. ” — Don Draper to Peggy Olson, “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” The RCA says...

Good shabbos, and hey, if you liked the blog this week, how about hitting the donate button ? Thankee. Very. Muchee. Shabbos music aft...

At the end of Emor, we find the story of the blasphemer. See how its told in the chumash here . What follows are some midrashic notes. Any...

If you're like me, you have several friends who pontificate about Egyptian magic. All of their knowledge comes from Rashi, and one of th...

In all the communications we've seen and heard in support and defense of Sholom Rubashkin has even one mentioned that the original raid ...

A guest post from here The pasuk says: אֶל בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וְאָמַרְתָּ אֲלֵהֶם מוֹעֲדֵי ה’ אֲשֶׁר תִּקְרְאוּ אֹתָם מִקְרָאֵי קֹדֶשׁ אֵ...

This graph shows the average worldwide Google searches for the word "Torah." It peaks a little here and there as various Torah r...

here rubashkin Hotness:  On Fire Peak: 3 hours ago Location: 19% - New York, NY 13% - Brooklyn, NY As of 4:20 EDST No surpri...

I am so not making this up San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced today a moratorium on official city travel to Arizona after the state...

Often, I'm asked why I prefer to study my daily daf alone instead of joining one of the many neighborhood classes/shiurim. The reason I ...

When I was young, and foolish I used to argue with Christian missionaries (I later graduated to arguing with OJ fundies, and have since real...

Some from the right are attempting to score cheap points by suggesting that I'd complain loud and bitterly had a Republican official tol...

Opportunistic republican whiners are complaining bitterly about a terrible joke General James L. Jones, the National Security Advisor, told ...