It's tough running a blog, believe me. You need to come up with ideas that excite both you and the readers. And you need to attract read...

Purim 5725 in YRCB. A very fun listen. It looks like RYH was not used to hittin' the bottle very much - which is a good thing, of cour...

It seems like Lakewood - or rather the defenders of the Lakewood system - has a disproportionate amount of sufferers of ADD and lack of read...

I've heard this here often, people telling me to look at Lakewood and see 6000 people hurreven in teyreh and see what a major success s...

I had the good fortune of spending several hours with Reb Chatzkel Besser z"l about a year and a half ago. Maybe two years by now. I h...

Here's what I got via e-mail today: Hello Reb Hersh, Are you familiar with the garbage that's going on currently in Williamsburg, co...

Dr. Bernard Lander and Dr. Alan Kadish It's tough to eulogize and even thank a man whom you met only once - rather saw only once. Yet, d...

Reb Chatzkel has left us.

If you watched the clip from living Torah, where at 1:45 and on Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski is seen "going for a dollar" with so...

This was part of part 12 of Elozor Reich's letters, but I separated it due to the length of that letter. I figured most of my readers ha...

ערליכע אידן מיט אידענעס פארן אין מיאמי זיך אפרוהען פון די שווערע ארבעט. דארט איז די לופט ווארעם, און מאכט גרינג אויפ'ן הארצן. דארט קען מ...

A Tshuveh from Rav Yuda Blum, Hanshovitzer Rav, and son of the Beis Sheraim, zt"l, where he discusses giving aliyos to those who are pa...

Photographs are reproduced from the An-sky photo-archive, courtesy of Petersburg Judaica, European University at St. Petersburg. From Here ...

We're used to the Reb Hillel Kolomayer the zealot, the one who poured fire and brimstone, who called all those who deviated just a bit ...

Myers family, Gateshead, circa 1915 Gateshead Yeshiva, 1930. Saul Davis' photostream So I was reading the Artscroll "Rav Dessler...

Last Batch (No. 12) of my old letters - Published in Jewish Tribune 28th January, 2009 Yom Bays Leseder Breshis 5714 Isru Chag Lechutz Leore...

Please click the header above for a nice link The Loshon "Moreinu" was used in the 1930s by many of the New York bachurim ...

You know me, I'm just the like next guy. If I'd have the money I'd be in the Beis Medrash all day, no doubt about it. Not that ...