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The Decline of a God Centered World
Image from Cross Currents for illustration purposes onlyI wish I could say I’m surprised. Unfortunately I am not. The following was reported by Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein in Cross Currents: Ronald F....
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The Price of Frumkeit
Not surprisingly, there has been an uptick of COVID infections in the religious neighborhoods of New York City. From JTA: Six heavily Orthodox neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens are currently...
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Was Justice Served in Louisville?
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron (AP)I am a fan of the police. And I am not ashamed to say so. (Even though I have had more than my share of speeding tickets in my life.) That is why I thank...
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Due to personal circumstances, there will be no new post today. I am not ill and to the best of my knowledge I do not have COVID. I just have an overwhelming number of things to deal with today and...
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Doing What's Necessary
Religion News ServiceWe are about to enter Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year. On this day we beseech God to seal our fate in the Book of Life for the coming year. Tefilla (prayers via our voices)...
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The Right Choice
Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett (SCOTUS blog)Anyone that ever had any doubts that politicians are a bunch of hypocrites should put those doubts to rest in light of what they are saying about...
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About Last Night…
The 'Debate' (Slate)I don’t know what all the shouting is about. The media is all over this. They are decrying what happened in last night’s presidential debate. I don’t know why. There were no...
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Are They Picking Orthodox Jews?
Boro Park's Maimonidies - 3 people died from COVID over the last 4 days (TOI)I’m beginning to feel like a broken record. But the situation demands it.The risk of getting sick and dying from COVID has...
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COVID, the President, and R' Chaim
Rav Chaim Kanievsky (Jerusalem Post)By now most people have heard the news that President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania have tested positive for COVID. No matter how one may feel about either of...
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Telling it Like it Is
New York to shut down zip-codes heavily populated by Orthodox Jews (NYT) It’s easy to feel like antisemitism is driving the way we are being treated. But I am of the firm opinion that antisemitism has...
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The End is Near
‘Don't let the coronavirus dominate your life’ (Guardian)The long ‘national nightmare’ is about to come to an end. No… I am not talking about the pandemic – although I wish I were. I am talking about...
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Ignorance Breeds Stupidity which Breeds Violence
Charedi child beaten by Israeli police (VIN)Birds of a feather. This is how I see the violence that has sprung up from Black Lives Matter protests and the protests going on in the Charedi world....
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Erring on the Side of Caution
(L) Mask burning in Boro Park - (R) Heshy Tischler (Metro)No matter what argument has been put forward for reducing cautionary behavior with respect to COVID I am hard pressed to agree with any of...
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That’s What it’s all About
Simchas Torah at the Kotel in 2018 (Jerusalem Post) Shemini Atzeres is almost upon us. Although it is the last (8th) day of Sukkos it is really a holiday unto itself. In the Diaspera a second day is...
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An Unprecedented Orthodox Divide
Hagaon HaRav Yisrael Landau, Rosh Yeshivas Heichal Yitzchak (YWN)I am angry. And I am sad. I never thought I would see the day when the Orthodox Jewish community was so divided. Growing up, I had...
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The Supreme Court - What is at Stake
Judge Amy Coney Barrett at today's senate confirmation hearings (AP)Although anything is possible, there is little doubt in my mind that the President will lose the election. Depending on which side of...
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Do We Live up to our Billing as a Wise People?
New Rules in New Square (Dusizneis)One thing none of us should ever do is laugh at the customs of others. And yet I find it almost too difficult to hold back if the new Takanos (rules) of New Square...
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So Much for Europe's Superior COVID Response
A Covid-19 rapid test facility at Fiumicino Airport in Rome (CNN)Well… the inevitable has happened. The vaunted protective measures against COVID infections in European countries that everyone was so...
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And the Chilul HaShem Keeps on Coming...
Satmar leader, Reb Meyer Rispler Z”L (YWN)The ‘Who are you to tell us what to do?!’ crowd is once again causing a Chilul HaShem. At this point I have stopped worrying about the health hazard that this...
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Rechnitz, Tischler, Satmar, and Agudah
Shlomo Yehuda Rechnitz (YWN)It is a mistake to say that the heated debate over COVID-19 is between the Charedi world and everyone else. Although sometimes it seems that way.The debate is just as...
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