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The Charedi Reaction

Spitting on Girls is Not the Main Problem

Anti-Charedi, not Anti-Semitic

The Torah Encyclopedia of the Animal Kingdom

Interpretations of Maimonides: The Visual Guide

Gevalt! The Jerusalem Post!

Part Two of my review of "Must a Jew Believe Anything?"

Guest Post: Revisionism and the Rav Revisited

Return of the Monsters

A Note On Nits

Rav Schachter on Chazal and Science

"Nothing But The Truth"?

Response, and Further Response, to Rabbi Meiselman

Agudah Follow-Up

Look Before You Leap

My Left Arm Hurts

On Omitting Parenthetical Statements

My (Second) Starring Role At The Agudah Convention (UPDATED)

"The Perfect Torah-Science Authority" - Fact or Fiction?

Chareidi Redux

The Wisdom of ArtScroll

Snake Gestation

Chazal Were Right (At Least, According To Me)

Rabbi Adam In Eden

Why Bats Get My Goat

The Seven Wonders of the Jewish World

Bat Responsa (revised again)

Rebellion in the Ranks of Rav Moshe?

London Schedule (so far)

Who Cares About Evolution?

Which Orthodoxies Should One Be Wary Of?

Ummm.... no He doesn't.

With Respect, You're A Kofer

Interview with a Post-Charedi Jew

The Making of Post-Haredim

Mighty Mouse Struggles

Nothing To Gloat About

Rambam: The greatest doctor and architect of them all?

The Novelty of Orthodoxy

Is It Acceptable To Believe That...

Changing the Siddur

It's Sukkos: Trick or Treat!

Gilad is Not a Number

Miscellanous Notes

The Zoo Torah Experience

The Fracturing of Yom Kippur

Charedi Judaism at a Crossroads

Must a Jew Believe Anything?

A Post-Rosh HaShanah Miscellany

The Book of Abraham: Online Resources for Chapter Three

Admitting Errors and Credibility

More on Antipodean Esrogim, and Upside-Down Shofars

The Upside-Down Lulav

Mars Attacks!

Halachic Reality and Empirical Reality

Questionable Assumptions about the Palestinians

Who Doesn't Believe That Kollel Students Are As Good As Soldiers?

Swords, Guns and Judaism

Killing in the Name Of God

Bet Shemesh Update (UPDATED)

Terrorism in Bet Shemesh

Circumcision

Exotic Shofars

Bugs in the System

Last of the Hyrax

But Rashi had Ruach HaKodesh!

Historical Records Vs. Dramatic Accounts

Prison Vs. Flogging

The Venom of Wolves

Ever Changing Morality

Trembling in Fear

A Grand Vision

Interview with Rav Nosson Kamenetzky

Some Interesting Articles

Much Ado About Hyraxes

There Are No Kangaroos In Tehillim

Where Did Those Haskamos Go?

Leviathan and Louis Jacobs

The Most Fascinating Rabbi You've Never Heard Of

The Murex Expedition

Was The Hyrax Banned?

Day of the Hyrax

Accepting Gedolim's Positions

The Rav and the Immutability of Halachah

The Limits of Rationalism

How I Came To Accept Evolution

Turning Things On Their Head

You'll Never Guess

Religion, Blinded

Interpretations of Maimonides: A Guide for the Perplexed

Old Wive's Tales and Double-Blind Tests

Rationalist Rishonim: Riaz

Defending Shechitah

Hyper-Rationalism and Segulos

Gedolim, Tzaddikim, and Leaders

Return of the Hyrax

Rav Sternbuch Clarifies... Or Does He?

The Ring of Power

For Heaven's Sake

Mussar From Movies?

4G

The Unorthodoxy of Chasam Sofer

Chazal Were Correct - And The Facts Prove It

The Invention of the Kollel

Status Report

The Fractal Unity of Torah

The Founding of Agudas Yisrael

Letter to Tradition

Dealing with Crises of Faith

Of Worms and Rabbinic Authority

Why Jerusalem Matters

Maarava - Not Enough, Or Too Much?

Attack of the Nazi Midgets

Revisionism and the Rav Strikes Again

Presumptions or Conclusions?

Denying the Dinosaur Eras

Nothing Gained, Everything Lost

The Innovation of Fundamental Beliefs

Diatribe + Monologue = "Dialogue"

Wrestling with Demons

The Changing World of Jewish Scholarship

The Gedolim's Authority is Tested

The Secret Letter of Chasam Sofer

My Favorite Opponent

Orthoprax Vs. Off-The-Derech

Was Chasam Sofer Actually Correct?

Ami Receives Feedback and Responds

Single-Bodied People

The Book of Abraham

All Men Are Not Equal

This and That - UPDATED

My Big Fat Greek Pesach

Orthodoxy Versus Maror

Ominous, Treacherous Infiltrators?

The Riddle of the Giant Kezayis Defense

Rambam's View of Tzara'as

Something to Ruminate Upon

Who Is Following The Rishonim?

New Discovery is More Bad News for Discovery

What Do The Gedolim Hold?

Chalk Up Two More

Hyrax Redux

The Camel, the Hare and the Hyrax

Of Potatoes and Olives

Purim Highlights

The Ultimate Ban

Wha...

Reckoning with Rabbeinu Tam

Jews and Palestinians

Rav Schechter's Error

Thank God I'm Not A Moslem

Where You Least Expect To Find It

When The Gedolim Visited Teaneck

Healthy Humor or Inappropriate Mockery?

Just When You Think That You Know Somebody

The Invention of a Gemara

Disputes Vs. Deference

Analogy Vs. Inference

Is Electricity in the Gemara?

When God Reveals His Secret Knowledge

WikiLeaks and Rambam

Are You Sick of Brain Death?

The Dove of War

Doctors "Baffled" by Medical "Miracle"!

Detached from Reality

Suckers for Orthodoxy

Orthodox Judaism vs. Rationalist Judaism

Rav Shlomo Zalman's Mistake - UPDATED

Who Are The Experts?

Rabbeinu Bachya on the Soul and Mind

When There Is No Halachic Precedent

The Breath of the Nostrils

The Rational Soul

Day of the Golem

The Evolution of Man

Philosophy, Torah or Science?

Missing the Obvious

What is a Human?

What the Firmament Really Is

An Upside-Down World

Methodologies for Interpreting Chazal

Seriously and Literally.

New York Lectures for the Public

Rambam on Man in the Garden of Eden

Popular Misconceptions and My Mistake in Enabling Them

Response to RYGB - UPDATED

Summary of the Life/Death Issue

Dismissing Rashi, Undermining the Chasam Sofer

Two Distinct Problems with a Chazal-Based Determination of Death

The Critical Ramifications of Correctly Identifying a Scientific-Halachic Issue

Scientific, Halachic, and Scientific-Halachic Issues

Pseudo-Scientific Muslim Fundamentalists at Bar-Ilan University

The Big Picture of the Firmament

Rav Shlomo Miller Denounces Perversion and Corruption

Rabbi Shlomo Miller endorses Rabbi Broyde

Great Icey Balls of Fire

When Drash Becomes Pshat