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A guest post by Y. Bloch This Saturday is hump day. No, the calendar has not been re-jiggered to redefine a week; the last people who di...

How many suits   do you own? If you wear them on shabbos only, the right answer is probably three or four. You want to be able to get t...

What Leon Wiesletier says in his new Diarist is brilliant. It carries messages that every Likudnik, every Haredi, every Cross Current contr...

Yesterday's lifestyle item provoked a strong response on the social networks from people who seemed to take it for granted that pre-S...

  A guest post by Y. Bloch Another Yom HaAtzmaut (Israeli Independence Day) has come and gone. The flags have been folded, the barbecues ...

Is DovBear transitioning into lifestyle blog? Not likely. I'm just sharing my thoughts and experiences as per usual Now that we...

On the comment thread of his latest post, our friend Yaakov Menken lashes out at someone called "Jonathan" as follows: "T...

"Democrats bragging about the number of mandatory sign ups for Obamacare is like Germans bragging about the number of manditory [sic...

I'm a grateful American citizen, who has always been lukewarm about public celebrations. I don't always do something special on the...

I can't work up the energy to care about the Supreme Court's latest terrible decision. Though I think they got the law wrong, and ...

Did you read the new Pruzansky? It's not entirely awful, in that his main point about Sterling is exactly the same thing that I said e...

Boo on the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and t heir vote yesterday to exclude J Street . I have particu...

Should J-Street be permitted to join the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations? Yes, yes, of course. Today t...

I DISAGREE with the NBA's decision to ban Donald Sterling for life. Donald Sterling did not deprive anyone of his civil rights, and he ...

I've been told that its "silly and pretentious" to discuss the true origins of shlisell challah. They say this is "mocke...

A guest post by Y. Bloch When I was in junior high lo these many years ago, our principal propounded an interesting theory. This yeshiva...

I really don't know what to make of Katy Perry's appearance as Yosef Shulem, the challah- fressing bar mitzvah entertainer, in her ...