My Perspective

14 years ago, people were buzzing about the talking fish in New Square. Some believed the story, others scoffed. It became the source for ma...

In a talk, Rivka Malka Perlman told about a young man whom her brother (Benzion Klatzko) is trying to be mekarev. The person is tough and ...

Mrs. Grama, whose sensible view I've quoted before  here , wrote another sensible piece in Inyan magazine that began with her relating t...

Rabbi Dovid Kaplan, in an Inyan magazine article, wrote that he heard that Rabbi Tzvi Meir Zilberberg said in a shiur that over Chanuka he ...

I find it interesting how we never hear a story about the beis din shel maala  (Heavenly Court) that has a woman involved. If you know of an...

I read The Pious Ones and thought it was quite good. The author, a writer for The New York Times,  describes himself as "a fairly ...

As a follow-up post to this one  here  about communication nowadays, there was an article in Binah by someone who says she was as anti-cellp...

So this is what I learn from Yisro. That when it comes to fathers-in-law and sons-in-law, 1) a father-in-law can criticize his son-in-law ...

There is a famous Ibn Ezra on the dibra of lo sachmod - "Do not covet your neighbor's house. Do not covet your neighbor's wife...

I have been reading a diary that is printed weekly in Ami Living. A mother tells about her wonderful son who did beautifully in school throu...

I read two stories this week having to do with Rabbi Moshe Feinstein z"l and I thought they go well together. One story, told by R...

An 11 year old commented that she is not looking forward to being bas mitzva because then she will have the ol mitzvos  (yoke-responsibility...

At the Agudah Midwest Convention, R' Dishon read a letter that he received.  The letter, from a woman in Lakewood, told him off (his wor...

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This vort catches my fancy. I do not guarantee that the people cited as saying them are the correct sources. I would love if someone could v...