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Anything You Can Do!
Jewish Week -Times of Israel image for illustration purposes onlyOnce again, common sense seems to have gone the way of the dodo bird. We are living the 21st century. It is high time that the rabbinic...
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Religious Rights Versus Educational Standards
Eli Steinberg is an articulate writer. As articulate as one would expect from someone that has had a decent secular education. Which Eli no doubt did. And yet he insists that fellow Jews have the right...
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The Trump Peace Plan
Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt - architects of the Peace Plan I am not a bit surprised by the reaction to the just released Trump peace plan between Israel and the Palestinians.Is it the ‘Deal of...
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Moving to the Right - Moving to the Left
The quintessential Centrist - Rav Aharon Lichtenstein There is the right. There is the left. And there is polarization. That is the biggest obstacle to Achdus – Unity in Judaism. The more time passes,...
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The Spilling of Blood that is Embarrassment
The Adler family - publicly embarrassed by an airline pilot (VIN)Outside of physical harm, I can’t think of too many things worse than being embarrassed in public. That is a type of antisemitism that...
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Charedi Drug Mules
Is 'Just say no' the right message? (Mishpacha)Sometimes I wonder about the values of the Charedi world. Not so much about the values they promote. But about the values that they don’t.Obviously the...
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Hating the President
Representative Adam Schiff pleading his case at the impeachment trialThe inevitable is about to happen. There little doubt that the Senate will vote not to remove the President of the United States...
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Racism Within the Jewish Community
Elishva Rishon (Nashim Magazine)Next time you use the word ‘Shvartze’ you might want to think about how Elisheva Rishon would feel about it. Even if you try and explain it away by saying you meant no...
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About Last Night…
(Newsthud)Shocking! That is the only word I could think of after I saw what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did last night. If I were the President’s re-election campaign manager, I could not have paid her...
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If It Ain't Broke...
Elementary school classroom in Kiryas Joel (Jewlicious)The operation was a success. But the patient died. That might be the outcome if the New York City DOE (Department of Education) implements...
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Prejudice versus Respecting Difference
Boro Park on Sukkos (Ha'aretz)I see it here all the time. In fact I have been accused of it myself. There is definitely prejudice against the Charedi world. Not just by the antisemites of the world....
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Another Opportunity for Democrats to Trash the President
President Trump and Jared Kushner (Arutz Sheva)Dissappointing. That is the least I can say about the 100 congressional Democrats that slammed the President’s Middle East Peace Plan between Palestinians...
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The First Jewish President?
Bloomberg campaign poster (13WMAZ)It says a lot about this country that two major Democratic presidential candidates are Jewish and nobody cares. What I mean is that in America the idea of one of our...
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Obama Versus Trump
Two Presidents (CNN)There is something I want to get off my chest. Which is the following. Despite my support for most of the President’s policies, I long for the days of Barak Obama. This does not...
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Feminism, Yoatzot, and Observing Halacha
Rav Aharon FeldmanOnce again, I am dismayed at Rav Aharon Feldman’s comments. This time it what he has said about Yoatzot Halacha. I cannot think of a more counterproductive opinion than this one. The...
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Gedolim and the Importance of Elitism
Rav Moshe Sternbuch (Arutz Sheva)I have expressed this view before. And I say it again with complete confidence. Today’s Gedolim do not come anywhere near the Gedolim of yesteryear. This is not to...
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None Are So Blind as Those That Will Not See
Ben-Gurion declaring Israel's independence (Wikipedia)Two Year ago, former RCA President, Rabbi Shmuel Goldin made Aliyah - the ‘Big Move’ (so to speak) to the land of Israel. Cross Currents features...
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Give Him a Mentos
Eliezer Berland arriving for a court hearing on February 13, 2020 (Times of Israel)I am not surprised that charlatans exist in the Orthodox Jewish world. Nor am I surprised that there are sex...
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The High Cost of Fraud
Some of the 7 fraudsters (Lohud)I was outraged at the time. As is always the case, whenever there is a Chilul HaShem, I get angry. What happened then (in 2013) was that Satmar and similar educational...
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A Religious Charedi Rebel
Dr. Yehuda Sabiner (VIN)I don’t think it would be an exaggeration to say that Rav Chaim Soloveichik is one of the most influential religious Jewish figures of the modern era. In the present day, where...
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