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COVID - Where We Were, Where We Are, and Where We're Going
Operation Warp Speed COO, General Gustave PernaWhen the COVID-19 pandemic first hit us back in early March and it was discovered how contagious it is and how quickly it spreads, I quickly made the...
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Where is the Religious Leadership?
Store in Brooklyn with a sign in Yiddish saying they're open (Washington Post)It almost seems like the more religious one is, the stupider they get. The only people they listen to are their religious...
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The Toxic Culture of Sexuality
Madeline Canfield - one of 6 authors of an article on this subject (TOI)How sexualized is western culture? I think the answer should be obvious to anyone with the slightest bit of awareness about what...
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Desperate but Irresponsible
The world as we knew it about 8 months ago has changed radically. In ways that make it a lot more difficult to live our lives normally. Things are pretty bad right now. The pandemic seems to be peaking...
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Support for President Elect, Joe Biden
President-elect, Joe Biden (CNN)I have to be honest. I wish the President would just concede the election gracefully; cooperate with Biden on a smooth transition; and then just go away. That has always...
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Will It Get Worse Before It Gets Better? It's Up to Us!
Where not wearing a mask can get youThe world is on fire. At least that is what it seems like. Sickness and death are all around us. People are getting sick in record numbers. Chicago is currently...
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Is America Racist?
Success is the product of a good educationOne of the more important issues currently on the front burner of public discourse is racial prejudice. It is a discussion that is long overdue. There is not a...
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How Pro Trump or Anti Trump Are We?
I have of late been thinking about what drives Orthodox Jews who should have similar values to almost opposite political extremes. This has become most apparent over the last few years during the...
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For God's Sake - Wear a Mask!
Ignorant and in denial -Rabbi Yehoishophot Oliver It is literally breathtaking. The level of denial about the reality of COVID by so many people takes my breath away. But more importantly it takes away...
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Glad to See Him Go. But...
Mike Pompeo in a West Bank settlement in Israel yesterday (Arab News)I can’t wait until it’s over. The quixotic pursuit by the President to overturn the election would be comical if it weren’t so...
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The Election - Winners and Losers
Why Democrats lost ground in the election (Politico)The American people have spoken. There is about to be a new ‘sheriff’ in town. There should be little doubt about that. Biden won the election and...
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The Satmar Chilul Hashem
Lag B'omer in Kiryas Joel - what the wedding might have looked like (TOI)I don’t know where to begin. Even though their views on the State of Israel are in direct opposition to my own, there was a time...
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Five Jews, Biden, and Israel
Secretary of State designate, Antony Blinken (Wiki)Five of the people President-elect Joe Biden has chose for top positions in his administration are Jewish. Which is pretty remarkable for someone that...
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Where is Daas Torah?
Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn on April 29, 2020 (Mosaic)Is Daas Torah in Decline? That is the thesis of Rabbi Shlomo Zuckier in a Mosaic Magazine article. He believes that to whatever extent it exists now,...
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A COVID Thanksgiving
Volunteers distributing food packages during the pandemic (WSJ)Hodu LaShem Ki Tov. On this day of the year, I am reminded just how much I have to be thankful for. That is what Thanksgiving is all...
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The Promised Land in 'A Promised Land'
Rabbi Dov Lipman was there when it counted. A few years ago, extremist Charedi inhabitants of Ramat Bet Shemesh Bet were flexing their muscles in a contentious battle with their Modern Orthodox...
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The Pandemic - Bringing Us Up to (Warp) Speed
I was informed this morning that, yesterday (Shabbos), Chicago Community Kollel (Lakewood) Rosh Kollel, Rabbi Dovid Zucker, made a Birchas Gomel. That is a blessing one makes when surviving a life...
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America Needs You, Harry S. Truman
Islamist Iranians protest the assassination (Economic Times)A lot of people get upset when I refer to President Harry S. Truman as a mass murderer. But I don’t see how anyone can see a man who killed...
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Mr. President: It's Past Time to Concede
Despite the denials - the truth about the election is on his face( CNN)I know that my liberal friends don’t like to hear this. But as a politically conservative leaning Jew that cares about his...
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The Demise of Religion Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
Elliot Page (Women’s Health Magazine)It is a extremely tough issue for me. Yesterday a young formerly female actor known as Ellen Page came out as transsexual. Going forward she will identify as male...
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