My D'var Torah for Shimon’s Bar Mitzvah
The following is the Dvar Torah I gave yesterday at my grandson Shimon Greenland’s Bar Mitzvah.This week’s Parsha deals with the story of Yaakov and Esav. Esav was an Ish Yodeah Tzayid -a hunter....
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Another Charedi Tells it Like it Is
Rav Shmuel AuerbachSometimes he’s right on the money and sometimes I think he’s profoundly wrong. But that does not take away from his integrity – which Rabbi Moshe Grylak demonstrated this week in his...
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Rejecting Ultra Orthodoxy Does Not Require Going OTD
Leah Vincent - Photo credit: ZeekThere is a fascinating and enlightening article by Leah Vincint that can only be described as a baring of the soul. Which is kind of ironic since Ms. Vincent is no...
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The Demise of Conservative Judaism
Rabbinic leaders of the Conservative Movement. Photo credit: ForwardI feel sorry for them. The leaders of Conservative Judaism are scrambling to make sense of a Pew Research Center report that says...
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Rabbi S - A Call for Action!
HaRav Malkiel Kotler, Rosh HaYeshiva of BMGA great injustice is ongoing in the Torah world. An injustice that should be upsetting to anyone who fears God no matter what slice of Judaism they belong to....
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Does Judaism Require a Woman to Shave Her Head?
Frimet Goldberger - before and after. Photo credit: ForwardI have always had difficulty with the concept of Sair B’Isha Erva - the literal translation of which is ‘the hair of a woman is (considered)...
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A Way Out for an Agunah
Gital Dodelson and Avrohom Meir Weiss - Photo credit: New York PostI have been reluctant to write about the plight of Gital Dodelson. She is an Agunah. As commonly used an Agunah is someone Halachicly...
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Standing One’s Ground When the Price is Too High
Rabbi Ronald GreenewaldI have been getting a lot of push-back about the views I expressed in my previous post. I believe that part of the reason for that is a misunderstanding of my views and part of...
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A Microcosm of Achdus
Rabbi Mordechai Raizman, Executive Director of OperationsLast night I attended the annual banquet of the Chicago Vaad HaChinuch – otherwise known as the Associated Talmud Torahs (ATT). The ATT is the...
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Two Jews
Isaac Theil with passenger sleeping on his shoulderJust when you think the Torah world is overwhelmed with Chilul HaShem, along comes 2 stories that make me proud to be a Jew. And indeed are a Kiddush...
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The Sky is Falling
The Future of Judaism - Photo credit: Getty Images via the ForwardIt’s all over but the shouting. The Pew Research Center has banged another nail into the coffin of American Jewry. Not all of American...
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False Accusations and the Withholding of a Get
The Dodleson-Weiss case has brought into public focus the real problems of the Agunah. In this case, the husband Avrohom Meir Weiss is withholding a Get (religious divorce) from his wife Gital...
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A Change of Heart
Rabbi Yosef Gavriel BechhoferI received the following comment to my last post from Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer: RYH's article a) Is worthless, since an anonymous posek is no better than no posek at...
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Can This Man’s Reputation be Restored? Should it?
Last year I posted a series of articles about Rabbi Chaim Halpern. He was a prominent and popular Charedi Rav in London’s Golders Green Jewish Community. He was accused by 30 different women of various...
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Making the Mikva Experience Miserable
Mikva Lady - Photo credit: Jerusalem PostThe ‘evil’ Yesh Atid party is at it again. They’re trying to fix another problem in the Charedi community via legislation.The issue is the how the Mikva in...
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Overkilling the Left
Rabbi Asher LopatinSometimes I wonder if the right wing really does care about the rest of Klal Yisroel. Oh, they pay lip service to it. There is a lot of talk about reaching out to our secular...
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Whose Fault is it Anyway?
Studying Gemarah to the exclusion of all elseI am reminded of the old joke about the child who murdered his parents and then tells the judge, ‘Please have mercy on me, I am an orphan!’ I wish I could...
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A Crooked Rabbi
Rabbi Yona Metzger dojng the 'perp walk'.What a Chilul HaShem. From VIN: Rabbi Yona Metzger was photographed and taped by a police operative undermining investigations, arranging alibis and...
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How Many More ‘Pious’ Sex Abusers are There?
Rabbi Yakov Yitzchak RothIt seems we have an epidemic on hand. Sex abuse seems to be more prevalent today than at any time in history. Or is it…?My guess is that it is as prevalent today as it was in...
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I know it’s early. But I just got this video. I really liked it and thought I’d share. Chanukah is just a few days away. Hope it generates a smile or two. Enjoy.
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