A New Baby Girl
I am happy to announce the birth of a brand new baby girl into the greater Maryles family. My wife and I are now the proud great grandparents of 3 great granddaughters. All of whom reside in Israel....
View ArticleGood Yom Tov
Simchas Torah (Wikipedia)Wishing all a joyous Simchas Torah. As for us - the ‘poor Chutzniks’ currently in Israel - we will have to suffer the ‘torture called YomTov Sheni’ in Israel - where we will...
View Article'I Have a Dream...'
Female soldier - (Illustration by Arutz Sheva)It’s true. Not all Charedim are like that. Like what, you ask? Like those who perpetrated yet another violent attack against someone who symbolizes...
View ArticleTravel Day
Well, it’s off to Chicago. My wife and I have just completed an extraordinary Yom Tov in Ramat Bet Shemesh. As always experiencing Yom Tov in Israel with family s an experience we should all have. The...
View ArticleShapiro, Mastriano, and Trump
Shapiro speaking to supporters (Washington Post)It’s becoming almost impossible to ferret out the truth from mainstream media reportage. But there is little choice in the matter since the vast majority...
View ArticleA Lawsuit Without Merit
School in Kiryas JoelI hate to keep harping on the same subject. But as long as the issue keeps coming up in various different forms, I feel obligated by conscience to comment on it. The issue is...
View ArticleCan Emotional Detachment Explain the OTD Phenomenon?
Image from Mishpacha MagazineWhy do some people from observant Jewish families stop being observant? (For the sake of brevity this will hereby be referred to as going OTD.) I think that question has...
View ArticleFacing the Reality of Satmar Type Chasidus
Yeshiva Torah V'Yira D'Rabbenu Yoel of Satmar (Gothamist)As if to pour salt on an open wound, the largest Satmar Yeshiva in Williamsburg - The Central United Talmudic Academy - has been fined $8...
View ArticleKanye West and the Liberal Media
Kanye West (LA Times)One of the things that makes me so proud of this country is how it reacts to antisemitism. This has been obvious in recent years in how it reacted to various antisemitic attacks....
View ArticleAre English and Math Really Useless Subjects?
UTJ chairman Rabbi Yitzchak Goldknopf (Jerusalem Post)In America, it’s mostly the more extreme elements of the Chasidic world. In Israel it’s almost the entire Charedi world.I’m beginning to believe...
View ArticleVilifying Technology
Some of the thousands of attendees at a recent Asifa in Bnei Brak (VIN)Imagine a Charedi rabbinic leader addressing a huge assemblage of observant Jewry on the scourge of rampant violation of laws...
View ArticleThe Most Consequential Election in Israel’s History
Ben-Gvir's hero - mass murderer Baruch Goldstein Israeli elections are just a couple of days away. I thought I would share my admittedly limited perspective living 7000 miles away. It appearsthat...
View ArticleThe Elections, Free Choice, and Daas Torah
How much choice do we have in deciding what is right and wrong? While this might sound like strange if not ridiculous question, if you are Charedi the answer might be no real choice at all. This is...
View ArticleThe Violent State of Politics in America
Paul and Nancy Pelosi (NPR)Unless you live in a cave, you probably know that House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi’s 82 year old husband, Paul, was violently attacked in his home - struck in the head with a...
View ArticleThe People of Israel Have Spoken
Big Winners - Ben-Gvir and Smotrich (TOI)The hard right in Israel seems to have won big yesterday. Does that mean Israelis are racist?. That might be the conclusion of an election that gave more votes...
View ArticleWhat Do American Jews Think?
Results of the Israeli Elections (Jerusalem Post)UpdatedFrom what I am reading in the secular Jewish media, it appears that the majority of American Jewry is quite upset about Netanyahu’s apparent...
View ArticleThe Increase of Antisemitism in America
BMG in Lakewood, New JerseyI do not recall anything like this in my lifetime. Certainly not in America. But it is apparently happening. From JTA: “The FBI has received credible information of a broad...
View ArticleFollowing the Example of the Netziv
Lee Zeldin meeting with assorted Orthodox rabbinic leaders (YWN)UpdatedI thought I had seen the full extent of the Orthodox Jewish community’s opposition to NYSED (New York State Education Department)....
View ArticleA Republican Sweep?
Republican Candidate for the US Senate, Mehmet Oz (CNN)It looks like it could very well be a near clean sweep for Republicans in tomorrow’s election. Although a lot of races are very tight and too...
View ArticleA Religious and Political Right Wing Israeli Government
Netanyahu speaking to President Biden yesterday (TOI)One of the more striking things to me about the recent Israeli election is that more than 25% of the seats in the K’nesset will be held by observant...
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