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Racism and Anarchy
The police at a burning building in Kenosha (NewYork Post)The political divide cannot be greater - the polarization clearer. The country is divided like at no other time in its history. Or at least in...
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A Misguided Attack
Agudah's Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zweibel (VIN)I am disappointed. Rabbi Yaakov Homnick is one of the most intelligent, articulate, and Jewishly knowledgeable people I have even known. (We are actually...
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Nebech an Apikores
Whenever I delve into matters of faith, I get very nervous. Not because of the challenges to it. I can deal with those. But with opening up discussion that can easily lead believers astray. And yet...
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The 'Frumma' Yetzer Hara
Not this yearWe may get lucky a lot sooner than expected. I say ‘may’ because nothig is certain. But FDA commissioner, Stephen Hahn, has said that it might be possible to start vaccination for COVID...
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Morality and Sociopaths
Protesting a gang rape in Israel (Daily Mail)I have to admit I missed this one (actually 2 in this case). There were two disgusting events that occurred in Israel that those with even a modicum of...
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The Torah - Reward, and Punishment
Rav Ahron Soloveichik (circa 1970)I was sent a Dvar Torah by my Rebbe, Rav Ahron Soloveichik on this week's Parsha (Ki Savo). It is a Hashkafic piece that deals with a subject that in some cases is...
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The Best of Doctors - The Best of Shadchanim
By Rabbi Chananya Weissman, Guest ContributorRabbi Chananya Weissman (Arutz Sheva)I received the following submission from Rabbi Chananya Weissman. Chananya is single and has been involved in the...
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LGBTQ and Yeshiva University
LGBTQ student activists protesting YU (Commentator)Unlike some of my coreligionists to the right, I have a tremendous amount of sympathy for the LGBTQ community. I am a firm believer in accepting...
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The Media, the President, and the Vaccine.
Dr. Ashish Jha of the Harvard Global Health Institute - a frequent Trump criticI’m beginning to feel like a broken record. But I will say it again. Even at the risk of being accused of being closet...
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A Feminist View of the Biblical Channa
Rachel Kravetz (New York Jewish Week)I know it is politically incorrect to feel sorry for an Orthodox Jewish feminist who is sincere in wanting to serve God to the best of her ability. But that is...
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Come November
Bob Wooward's new book on TrumpPresident Donald J. Trump has just been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. From the Jewish Press:Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a Norwegian lawmaker from the Progress Party,...
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The Bnei Brak Conspiracy
The famed Itzkowitz 'Minyan factory' in Bnei Brak (i24 NEWS)Is the Mossad responsible for 9/11? That is what the conspiracy theorists of the Muslim world really believe. They believe the Mossad somehow...
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Is it Possible to be Too Frum?
Vizhnitz last Purim (Ha'aretz)Frumkeit. That is the real culprit here. That is the motor by which many more COVID deaths may occur. I do not say this lightly. But I don’t think there is any other way...
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Congratulations and Disagreement
R' Yiztchok Sorotzkin (Wall Of Fame)Matzav has announced that six new members have been added to the Agudah Moetzes. One of whom was my Chavrusa in Telshe during my sophomore year in their high...
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Are Charedi Jews More Religious than Their Ancestors?
The uniform look of CharedimEytan Kobre’s recent Mishpacha Magazine column was quite revealing. It underscores the foolishness of Frumkeit and his own subtle acknowledgement of it. Rav Shlmo Wolbe...
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Being Kind to the Cruel
Ben Uliel after his conviction last May (TOI)It is shocking that over $150,000 has so far been raised on behalf of convicted mass murderer Amiram Ben Uliel. What is more shocking, however, is that a...
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Polarization; between Americans, and between Jews
Image for illustration purposes only (VIN)It’s depressing. The pandemic has brought out the worst in far too many of us. Instead of uniting in common cause to defeat this plague, we are more divided...
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May 5781 Be a Year of Blessing
V’Nahphechu. It happened on Purim. One of the distinct features of Purim is the very idea of sudden change. Only in the case of Purim it was the reverse of what it is now. Bad was changed to good. The...
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The Loss of a Feminist Icon
The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader GinsburgI can’t think of too many people whose liberal political ideology was so vastly different from my own (although I actually agreed with her liberal view...
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