The Curious Jew

The relationship between Saul, Jonathan and David is very complex. It occurred to me that it is played out via their weapons of choice. Sa...

Tonight I had the pleasure of hearing Rabbi Eytan Feiner of The White Shul in Far Rockaway give a speech on "Aquatic Perfection: The Mi...

I still don't understand how this went down. Tamerlan: I follow radical Islam and think that we need to teach the USA a lesson. Dzokhar...

April is Sexual Assault Awareness month. Due to this, Jenny Payne has written an article in The Columbia Spectator called 'Time To Tal...

Today is Yom HaShoa, and therefore an appropriate day to post an excerpt from Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff's fantastic book, Fr...

I noticed an interesting parallel between David & Joseph today. In Genesis 37:14, Jacob commands his son Joseph: יד   וַיֹּאמֶר לוֹ...

But it is like the primary colors in the paintings of children, splashed on the paper with abandon, occasionally not without charm, but gen...

I was reading Family Redeemed over Yom Tov, and there were some pieces that really touched me. I'll reproduce them below. ~ The woma...

Urim Publications was kind enough to send me a copy of Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom's Between the Lines of the Bible: A Study from the New Sc...

Many friends of mine have shared the article "Shut Down the Bible Department" by Elliot Resnick across their Facebook feeds. I th...

Those of you who have been reading my blog since its inception remember my upsetting experience at my Bais Yaakov school when it came to tz...

I'm reading through The Big Book , which neophytes can think of as the Alcoholics Anonymous bible. I learned something new, namely that ...