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When Double Standards Should Apply
We ought to do better. Our mandate to glorify the name of God as his chosen people requires us to be exemplars. Not followers. Especially those among us who claim a higher mantel piety. That is what...
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Message to the Chief Rabbinate: Women are People Too
Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzchak YosefOnce again, it seems that common sense is lacking. This time it is on the part of the Chief Rabbinate. They apparently do not want to test women on the Halacha they...
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Opposition to a Trump Appointee, But…
Col Douglas Macgregor, Trump nominee for ambassador to GermanyI received an email from a frequent commentator that I have a lot of respect for despite the fact that we have substantial disagreements on...
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When Silence is Not Golden
Howard Beale - from the 1976 film, Network If there was ever a time to support the Police Department, now is that time. Early this morning in Chicago (at about midnight) Chicago was attacked by violent...
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The Jewish Education Conundrum
Arie Crown Hebrew Day SchoolIf the religious school tuition crisis will ever have a breaking point, the current situation might, God forbid, usher that in. Those of us that have or had children in...
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The President's Values Are Not Torah Values
Yaakov Shwekey singing an ode to the President (VIN)A short while ago, I discussed an open letter strongly criticizing those of us that fawn all over politicians whose flaws are anathema to our values...
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Charedi Bashing
Coronavirus lab at Hadassah (Jerusalem Post)This is not the first time I’ve talked about this issue. But I think it needs to be revisited.It is time for a reality check. I am often accused of Charedi...
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Some Good News in a Year of Bad News
Netanyahu, Trump, and Zayed (Arab News)For those who believe that the President has not done anything significant for Israel, I’m pretty sure they will say the same thing about his recent coup with...
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Why Are Good People Ignoring the Pandemic?
Nissim Black and R' Chaim Kanievsky (YWN)I hate to keep repeating myself but I can’t help it. Lives are at stake. I don’t get it. Every evening when I watch the nationally broadcast news I see a...
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The Problem with Modern Orthodoxy
How many MO 8th graders know who these 3 rabis are?There is no greater anti smoking zealot than a reformed smoker. I therefore have to take what Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld wrote in the Jewish Linkwith a...
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Biden, Harris, and Israel
Democrats are in the middle of their Presidential nominating convention. Better described this year as one very long political commercial. Much of it pre-recorded. (As was Michelle Obama’s speech last...
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The Cancel Culture Must be Defeated
Former New York Times columnist, Bari Weiss (NYT)Cancel Culture. That is a is new phrase used to describe a phenomenon taking place in America that makes a mockery of the First Amendment. The first...
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Painful Choices for the Fall
Former President Obama addressing the convention last night (Newsday)For someone like me that leans politically conservative and is a strong supporter of Israel, it is hard not to appreciate and...
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Rav Zalman Nechemya Goldberg, ZTL
R' Rav Zalman Nechemya Goldberg, ZTL (VIN)It is with great sadness that I report the passing of this giant in Torah at age 89. I do not use the word ‘giant’ lightly. His Torah knowledge was...
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About Eulogies...
R' Adin Steinsaltz (Wiki)I have been asked – or perhaps more accurately criticized - by both the right and the left for not mentioning the Petirah (passing) of two prominent religious figures. Both of...
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What’s Up with This Mentality?
Adina Bar-Shalom founder of Haredi College of JerusalemOne of the many ‘I don’t get its’ in life I have is the stridency and extreme lengths by which some Charedi leaders in Israel reject a college...
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The Republican Convention and the Media
Nikki Haley last night - I would vote for her in a heat beat (National Review)Most people know and hopefully understand my ambivalence about the President. I have stated here often my simultaneous...
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Selfishness and Arrogance
Bnei RuvenAfter decades of participating in the 6:00 AM Minyan at Chabad’s flagship Shul, Bnei Ruven, I have switched to another Shul. As did a good friend and neighbor who is one of their premier...
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Videos, Protests, Violence and Julia Jackson
Jacob Blakes's mother, Julia Jackson (Raw Story)The vast number of images and videos available to the public about the events of the day because of the ubiquity of the smartphone cameras is yet another...
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Media Bias and Political Partisanship
Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks (JTA)After watching the President’s acceptance speech last night, I predicted exactly what the media response would be. They would focus only on what he did wrong that night...
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