Fink or Swim

When the "offensive" statements in our Talmud were stated, no one thought they were offensive.

Adegbile was not making a moral statement by representing a man convicted of killing a cop.

This kind of stringency borders on silliness.

When we are dealing in non-legal matters, we are no longer concerned with precedent.

Human nature is such that hearing something over and over again for forty years will inevitably have an impact on the person.

Basically, the real problem is bad parenting. He calls it parental selfishness.

If the Syrian-Greeks were not pushed out of the land, Judaism would have been lost.

According to the Torah Temimah...

The proper response for almost the entire population of planet Earth to these eternal questions about man-made meat is “I am not qualified to render an opinion on this matter.”

There is no song that tells the story of freedom like Shir HaShirim.

It’s really not that different than the situation in Israel with the charedim. Both situations need insiders to make the change happen.

Both communities value using books to study their texts, and digital devices are a less preferable way for younger people to study.

The Pope is saying that actions are far more important than faith. This is particularly ironic coming from Catholicism.

Certain books are excised from the subscription, in order to reinforce an imaginary history where nothing was inconsistent with Haredi Judaism.

Dvar Torah for Nitzavim Vayelech.

A rabbi who writes controversial things becomes international news.

A kashrus agency should be concerned with one thing and one thing only: the kosher status of our food.

Ruth Colian is running as a Haredi woman for political office.

This kid gets a medal for coming forward.

The world lost a great man last week.

It’s even more strange when the jokes come at our holiest times of the year.

Boys can play with dolls. Men can embrace their feminine side. Girls can play sports.

Trying to explain Holocaust deaths as tikkun and a way of cleansing a soul is offensive.

Ethical and moral laws in the Torah depend on the context. Kindness and virtue largely depend on the subjective expectations of one’s friends and community.

In short, he says the whole thing was a prophetic vision, a dream. There was no physical battle.

Women learning Torah is becoming increasingly permissive, but women wearing tefillin is becoming increasingly stringent.

Orthodox Jews are free to teach Leviticus and we are free to deny any religious rights and privileges to anyone we so choose.

People act not because they think it’s right; they do what they do because it’s what they want to do

For deviating from the orthodox scientific position, Nagel has been abused, maligned, outcast, and insulted.

The problem is that Tuna Beigel is a pejorative.