Kindred Spirits
Imagine, if you will, the loneliness of spending most of your life believing that your needs, your feelings, and your ideas are invalidated by those powers you most respect and feel most obligated to obey. Imagine too, hiding, […]
Category Archives: Religion
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 […]
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 […]
Count Me Out, Rabbi Porush
We see it all the time. The secular talk show host invites the haredi guest – usually Rabbi Porush, Benizri or Ravitz – and what ensues is a strange dialogue in which the real issue is never actually […]