Who Has the Keys to the Kingdom?
Years ago, straight out of a haredi women’s seminary in Borough Park, Brooklyn, I used to think that only those who wore the right outfits, and had the proper wigs and beards, had the keys to the kingdom […]
Category Archives: Israel
From a Distance: Vive la difference!
Last Friday my husband and I took our grandsons to the beach. Every time we got to an intersection, we were surrounded by a swarm of youngsters wearing election campaign hats and T-shirts, who offered us car stickers […]
Enough Gravestones
Holocaust Remembrance Day has come and gone. The sirens have sounded, the tears have dried. The crowds at Yad VaShem and other Holocaust memorial and educational sites have thinned to average. But for those who actually lived through […]
Shmuel Eldar
It was a little over a year ago that I received a phone call from the Air Force Base in Palmachim. Would I give a lecture for an officers’ gathering? Mr. Gadol, the education officer wanted to know. […]
A Shiv’a Call on Ruth
I paid a condolence call the other day. Ruth (not her real name) formerly one of the most respected rebbitzins in Meah Shearim, the wife of a prominent Rabbi and scholar from a distinguished rabbinical family, had lost […]
The Unraveling Kippah
The symbol of the election campaign for the National Religious Party is the unraveling knitted skullcap. Vote for the Mafdal, the commercial says, or all our wonderful educational institutions, our youth groups, our synagogues will go under. As […]
A Phyrric Victory
So, you think you’ve won, do you – all of you who organized and participated in that great show of yeshiva power this Sunday in Jerusalem? And, what then, exactly, is your victory? If you think your show […]
The Rule of Law
Last week Rabbi Porush the son explained to us on Gabi Gazit’s morning show why the haredim have every right to rob the country’s treasury to support haredim who are too holy to work. What was clear from […]