Da'as Hedyot

A rare photo of MLK addressing a crowd of chassidim. ;) A few weeks ago the US celebrated Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, which commemorate...

On the Cross Currents blog, Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein  wrote a post  reflecting on the recent tragedy of Leib Kletzky. He calls on the commu...

I just came across an interesting YouTube channel called The Travel Film Archive , a collection of old travel footage from around the world....

I know I haven't written anything in quite a while, so here's a roundup of various Chanuka related stuff for your enjoyment. The M...

Photo Credit: Flickr User  Ben Just in time for your holiday enjoyment, I'm very pleased to present another great interview by a wond...

These past few weeks I've noticed quite a few articles in the mainstream press about issues related to Jews and Judaism (and amazingly, ...

I don't have much to say lately, but I thought I'd drop by and mention some recent articles related to my usual topics that you may ...

I know it's been a long time since I posted a kofer interview. I had thought about letting the project wind down, but recently I met som...

I was at a meal on Shavuos at some religious friends of mine, the kind that are open-minded enough to not really care that I'm not relig...

Ugh. Once again, the chareidi world is up in arms , stalwartly defending a member of their community. And once again, the person is a conv...

Over the recent holiday I spent some time with my relatives. Like most ex-chareidi people, amongst my decent sized family, I have some relat...

These past few years, the chareidi community and its leadership have been providing innumerable lessons to the world about the way a Torah-T...