So Who is your God Anyway?

Oh it’s a basic question I know. But who is God anyway?
The odds are that your answer to the question is based on a religious answer. Who is God? He’s the being that my religion tells me about.
So to answer the question of who God is, we first have to answer the question of what [...]

The Infamous Oz Ve’Hadar Levusha Sefer

The first thing to remember is that it’s not a Sefer. Spending time disproving it is pointless, because Oz Ve’Hadar Levusha is not a Sefer. It’s an etiquette guide disguised as a Sefer.
Look the thing I always find about Frummies is how in denial they are about how assimilated they are. Modern Orthodox Jews are [...]

I Propose a Ban on Bans

If the Jew living in the Dor of Moshe Rabbeinu had a few hundred Issurim to deal with, by the end of Bayit Sheni the number of things forbidden had ballooned to the high thousands and by 1000 CE was several times that and today it’s virtually ad infinitum.
Part of that is the expanded capability [...]

Rabbanit Bruria Keren, Anorexia, Alternative Therapy and Women’s Religion

People in power like to believe that power means control. In the Haredi world the absolute supremacy of male leadership and the contempt for women has created the illusion that men are in charge. But when you oppress people, they just find alternate ways of expressing themselves.
Alternative Therapy has become the focal point for “women’s [...]

The Haredi Hatred of Women

This seems to come up regularly when reading online debates. It isn’t limited to Haredim either. Some Modern Orthodox men are just as bad. It’s what happens when women enter a discussion.
To men in the normal world the presence of women in a debate has not been a startling or unnerving event. To Haredim, a [...]