My Perspective

Years ago, I read an interesting article called, "Replacing Secular Values with Torah Values" in which the baal teshuva author...

One view: "I like the idea of my children beginning their married lives in Eretz Yisrael.  It allows them to establish themselves...

Surgical solutions to obesity are written about here and there in frum publications.  After one such article, someone wrote a letter to ...

In a letter to the editor of a frum publication, a parent writes, "I have often wondered about the emphasis rebbeim place on having...

It was refreshing to read a letter in a frum publication decrying the popular practice of castigating readers for insensitivity, for no ...

I keep on bumping into articles and true stories in books about experts who made pronouncements and were proven wrong.  Examples include...

Back in April, I wrote: here  about people who are moved by different things, and what appeals to one in his mitzva observance or in not...

The Gemara says that we read the curses in Parshas Ki Savo before Rosh Hashana so that, “tichleh shana v’kililoseha” (may the year and i...

This is a follow-up post to this  post in which I said I looked forward to reading the books about R' Nosson Tzvi Finkel z'l.  I...

What does this parsha, these pesukim, this sefer mean to me? What is its relevance to our lives nowadays? These are questions that teach...

R' Fischel Schachter tells a story about a man from London who had a heart attack in America and did not have travel insurance. ...

Elul is an incredible gift.  Elul is a time when even the fish in the sea tremble. Elul is a time of Divine grace, when the 13 Middo...

I read chunks of a fascinating though creepy book in which the author describes in detail what it was like growing up with drug addicts ...

I just got a phone call from a friend who was calling to thank me for sharing the "two a day" gratitude entries idea earlier t...

A small sampling of cookbooks for the frum cook: 1977, revised throughout the 70's into the 80's, 3-4 recipes per page, close...