While the debate over whether or not the internet is good or bad for the frum community can take on many sides. Many of those fighting and threatening to boycott major internet companies for the destruction they have wreaked on…
Tag: history
YU revises history, shmistory.
Nothing restores my faith in the fine institution known as Yeshiva University when they act more like a Yeshiva and less like a University. This past Rosh Hashanna I had the pleasure to read their latest YU To-Go. This publication shows me…
Cain and Abel in a new light
The story of Cain and Abel spans only about four psukim in Bereishis, but something tells me that there must have been more to the world’s first murder. Here is some of the subtext as it might have occurred in my family.
What do you think of Holocaust humor?
For most folks there is no connection between humor and the Holocaust, but it seems to be becoming more widely accepted. The Producers is hilarious and it came out in 1968 – only 23 years after the camps were liberated,…