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Shock and Misplaced Anger
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo - (CNY Central)‘Oh no!’ ‘What am I gonna do with my kids this summer!?’ ‘I’ve had it!’ ‘And so have my kids!’I think these words pretty much encapsulate the thinking of a...
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A Depressing Situation
Image from the Economist‘There something happening here.’ ‘What it is ain’t exactly clear.’ These lyrics from a Vietnam war era protest song - by a group called Buffalo Springfield have a strange...
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Will a Second Wave Happen?
Mazor Chairman Rabbi Shimon Ragov (Ynet)Things seem to be falling apart pretty rapidly. About half the states in the country have seen increases in the rate of illness and death. Some of them in record...
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When a Just Cause Becomes Unjust
Statue of George Washington toppled by Portland protesters (The Hill)Not every black person is a saint. Which is also true about white people. Trash exists in both communities. I for one think that...
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Is it Really Antisemitism?
One of the Chabad organizers of the march (Washington Post)One of the things the current focus on racism has done is place antisemitism on the back burner. With good reason. Although antisemitism is...
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Do Black Lives Really Matter to Us?
A disgusting comparisonOnce again, I find the words of Rabbi Avi Shafran to be right on target. This time relevant to the racism among us. And by ‘us’ I mean Orthodox Jews. As I have mentioned in the...
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Good Intentions Are No Substitute for Truth
Screenshot from last nights local NBC news broadcast - wonded mtherBlack people are still being killed. Despite all of the protests and public angst over racism in this country, black people are a lot...
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The Decline of Bi-Partisan Support for Israel
RJC vs. Jamaal Bowman (Jewish Press)One of the issues damaging American support for Israel is the increasing divide in congress between Democrats and Republicans. Where there was once bi-partisan...
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Too Much of a Good Thing?
The hallmark of American greatness is freedom. That is really what America is all about. The American people are guaranteed the right to do whatever they please provided it does not hurt any individual...
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The Good News and the Bad News
The Supreme Court of the United States (Towleroad)You win some and you lose some. That is what a couple of Supreme Court decisions mean to both the country and the religious freedom it stands for.First...
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The Defiant Ones
Emergency meeting of Bnei Brak Rabbonim (VIN)One of the most alarming things happening during the COVID-19 pandemic is the defiance by so many people to wearing masks in public.I can’t believe the...
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Before Judging, Wait for the Verdict
I am loathe to criticize an organization like Ohel. Ohel (established in 1969) is social service agency that deals mostly with the Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn. It provides a wide array of...
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All Black Lives Matter
Does Natalie Wallace's life matter? (SUN-TIMES) I don’t know if Chicago is the murder capital of the world. But it sure seems like if you watch the nightly news here.And yet if you don’t watch the news...
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Racism, Antisemitism, and BLM
BLM cofounder Patrisse Cullors (Back to Jerusalem)As someone that leans mostly towards a conservative political philosophy, I am dismayed by Myrna Lieberman’s article in American Thinker, a...
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Thoughts About Where We Are in the Pandemic
The late Nick Cordero, his wife Amanda Kloots, and son Elvis (CNN)Yes, the pandemic is still very much on my mind. How can it not be?! People are still getting sick and dying. In certain parts of the...
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A Bad Comparison
Recently in Indiana - another racist attack against a black man (screenshot)One of the more troubling developments of the righteous protests against racism in America is that some of us are using that...
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The Free Exercise Thereof
The Supreme Court of the United States (JNS)“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”So reads the first line of the first amendment...
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Why Not Give Women a Chance?
Religious Council and the Chief Rabbinate of Israel (Hamodia) I’m sorry it has come to this. According to Hamodia, the Israeli Chief Rabbinate is threatening to stop granting Semicha (rabbinic...
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It Ain't Over Til It's Over
Rabbi Chaim Zev Aryeh Ginsburg- a harrowing story about surviving COVIDYesterday as I ventured outside my house for a few minutes I saw two young Orthodox girls (in their late teens I would estimate)...
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Is Israel and their Police Antisemitic?
Border police during an extremist protest in Jerusalem (Jewish Press)There is no comparison. It is in fact insulting to compare how religious extremists are treated by the police in Israel with the...
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