My Perspective

True story as heard from the person it happened to: Mesila  here , the Baltimore based organization that coaches struggling families with ...

A grateful husband wrote to Family First thanking them for his wife's recovery.  He says they have four children, the last three born o...

What an interesting week this has been! Two posts and three days ago, I wrote about meeting Yossi Wallis, the subject of the book I had ju...

There is a full page ad from the Agudah, thanking the 2000 attendees of their convention and over 100,000 viewers.  The ad says, "Exper...

The eeriness continues.   I went to be menachem avel by the children of R' Pinchus Gross.  No sooner did I tell them what I wrote i...

  I just finished reading Incredible! by Nachman Seltzer.  Despite the ridiculous title (will his next book be called Wow! or Extra...

When it's before Yom Tov, especially a "3 day Yom Tov," and there is so much food prepared, so many bottles of drinks, so much...

  I listened to Rabbi Yitzchak Sorotzkin's address at the Aguda Convention and it was quite astonishing.  His two main points were...

In a discussion, someone said about emuna that knowing that we are maaminim doesn't help him.  It's a concept, not a reality to him....

This post is for links to two recent Kiddush Hashem news items.  The first one you may have seen, since it has been posted many places.  Th...

In a Binah magazine interview with Rebbetzin Chana Weinberg, of the Slonimer family, a 7th generation Yerushalmi, a descendent of the Boruc...

  Another Moshiach fantasy I have (see here for the first one) is that all Jews will have a glowing yud on their foreheads and all Am...

  My, oh my.  An item in a Chinese auction booklet goes as follows:   It is called "Glow of a Gadol" and says:   ...

  When you learn with someone who did not have a Jewish education, everything is new to them.  All the stories you heard a hundred time...