Hirhurim - Musings

After a great get-together last night, we are ready to move the blog to a new format that has more functionality and is more esthetically pl...

Rules: link Thursday Drug bust at Israel airport, Hasidic Jews arrested (time for another Tehillim gathering?): link The cost of being Je...

by Steve Brizel The Book of Memories R Berel Wein suggests why the Torah records the names of the stops and encampments of the Jewish Peo...

As presented by Joel Rich Click here to see presentation Courtesy of R. Moshe Schapiro, Gaava"d of the Gottesman Library.

This slide show is going on in the background right now. Click here to see presentation

Today is the day. Information here: link Even if you have not RSVP'ed, you can just walk in. Note that we are in the midst of a heat...

We live in an age where more information is available with greater ease than ever before. This applies to Torah just as much as any other su...

By: Rabbi Ari Enkin There is an ancient custom to bless the upcoming Jewish month on the Shabbat which precedes Rosh Chodesh. These Shabba...

This Wednesday July 7th is the Hirhurim get-together/dinner ( link 1 , link 2 , link 3 , link 4 , link 5 ). All readers, commenters and frie...

Guest post by Rabbi Aryeh Leibowitz The Shulchan Aruch records a tradition to refrain from drinking wine during the period of the nine da...

Rules: link Friday 'The End of Men' ... in Judaism?: link New issue of Jewish Review of Books: link We can make a difference in o...

by Joel Rich Rabbi Shmuel Marcus -Birthdays and Yahrtzeits : link With the 100th audioroundup I thought it appropriate to lead with this...

Does the internet make you dumber? A few weeks ago, much was made of a new book which claims that technology makes people less able to thin...