This morning Rav Shimon Baadani passed away. Baruch Dayan Haemmes. I am not going to talk about him but something that struck me when I hear...

The little Jewish child in the United Kingdom, Alta Fixler, was taken off life support yesterday and died. Her parents battle to save her an...

The Yehuda Meshi Zahav situation, which went from bad to worse, from horrific to tragic, was one that I did not really have anything to say ...

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Walla has the story of a fellow who is a terminal patient and was planning to travel to Switzerland for euthanasia. They can't travel n...

Abulafia Bakery in Tel Aviv - Yafo is an interesting story. The bakery was opened in 1879 by an Arab baker, Masoud Abulafia (I have seen a v...

Whoa According to Channel 13 News , Israel's Chevra Kadisha, the Burial Society, has acquired and set up in Haifa a refrigerator contain...

The story from the other day that knocked a lot of people for a loop is certainly upsetting. The story was about a premature stillborn baby....

In a psak that, I think, took the Israeli community by surprise, Rav Elyakim Levanon, Rav of the Regional Council of the Shomron and Rosh Ye...

Rav Nissim Karelitz was recently asked a halachic question regarding a family that had asked the Lev Malka organization, an organization tha...

Yesterday, Haim Hefer, one of the old Israeli poets, died at age 86. Hefer seems to have been one of those people with a "spicy" p...

A Guest Post by Dr. Harold Goldmeier Our aliyah is all highlights until today.  My previous articles and posts describe the lighter side ...

With the news this morning of the death of Benzion Netanyahu, the father of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the age of 102, I was wo...

Someone paying attention to advertisements on Israeli websites might notice that Optica Halperin is running advertisements for a huge end of...

Randy Macho Man Savage with buddy Hulk Hogan. I probably watched this WrestleMania on a Saturday night.  This post is in honor of an old...

Rav Reem HaKohein, the rav of Otniel, has written an interesting psak in a shabbos parsha sheet article. The topic is the current hot issu...

brain-stem death constitutes halachic death; our rabbis don't have the necessary background to understand it. Scientific ignorance can b...

Suicide is treated very seriously in halacha. According to the Shulchan Aruch, if someone commits suicide, we basically write him off. No si...

"Green burials" are becoming popular in the US. The explanation of what a green burial is actually sounds just like Jewish buria...

Continuing what I wrote yesterday about the reactions of the Haredi politicians upon hearing of the death of their bitter rival Tommy Lapid...