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One Step Forward - Two Steps Back
Mesivta of Bet Shemesh - Beis HaMedrashEvery step forward seems to require two steps back. Changing how the Charedi world educates their children is not an easy task. I only hope that it is not an...
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Analysis of a Bad Deal
Iran's Gadol HaDorDeath to America! Death to Israel. That is almost the national anthem of Iran. And it has been since the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Although they have toned down the anti America...
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The Beauty (and the Beast) of Chasidus
Chasidic girls from the video - Photo credit: ForwardI must admit that the video below about Chasidic life is very inspiring. As an article in the Forward notes, this video was not produced by any of...
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Some Good News about the Israeli Chief Rabbinate
Chief Rabbis David Lau and YiItzhak Yosef - Photo credit; Ha'artezI’m happy to announce that the Chief Rabbinate in Israel has done something right. Something which actually argues in favor of...
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Saying Hallel on Thanksgiving
Rabbi Meir Yaakov SoloveichikHow many people say Hallel on Thanksgiving? I can just hear somebody screaming at me saying, "What? Hallel on Thanksgiving?!""Are you out of your mind?!""That is the height...
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A Satmar Chasid and the Pope
Kidney donor,Rabbi Labin (3rd from left) showing Achdus - Photo credit: VINThere are two stories in the news that that should make a lot of people feel good for entirely different reasons. One is a...
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Are They Really That Pure?
Lev Tahor founder,Moshe Helbrans - Photo credit: Canadian TelevisionSainte Agathe. I have fond memories of that little hamlet in the Canada’s Laurentian Mountains on the outskirts of Montreal. I spent...
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It’s Only Murder - Big Deal!
Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg - Photo credit: Vice.comThe Gemarah in Yoma, 23a-b (yesterday’s Daf Yomi) has some very unflattering commentary about the state of the Jewish community during the first or second...
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Rabbi Meiselman, Science, Torah, and Chazal
Rabbi Moshe MeiselmanHow saddened I am to see an individual who I once so admired fall so far from the Hashkafa in which he was raised. I’m sure that Rabbi Moshe Meiselman would vehemently disagree...
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When Being Right is Wrong
Rabbi Binyamin Ginsberg - Photo credit: New York Daily NewsSometimes being right is not a reason to go ahead. I am frankly appalled by what I just viewed on CBS This Morning. The Supreme Court is going...
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Another Moderate Charedi Speaks Out
Rabbi Berl WeinA middle-aged person recently came to see me before embarking on a trip to the United States to raise money to pay for his crushing debts accumulated over the years that he has not...
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Tribute to a Kollel
Rav Shneur Kolter during his years studying in JerusalemThe Chicago Community Kollel is one of the greatest assets Chicago has. This Kollel - led by two ‘overachievers’ Rabbis David Zucker and Moshe...
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A Shameful Tirade
The Rav - Rabbi Dr. Joseph B. Soloveitchik“I could not care less what’s going on in Agudah!” These are not my sentiments. They are the sentiments of the Rav - R’ Yoshe Ber Soloveitchik. I heard them...
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Is Charedi Daas Torah the Only Reality?
Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, ZTLIt pains me to say this. Unfortunately as time goes on I see that it is more and more the case. The vast majority of Charedim in Israel are clueless. And therefore...
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A Very Wise Jew
New York Times columnist David BrooksI must admit that I was surprised. Noted New York Times columnist, David Brooks gave what I consider to be the quintessential message of Centrist Orthodoxy at a...
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He Freed a Lot of People
Nelson Mandela and Fidel CastroNelson Mandela was a great man. In fact I would say that he was a Gadol among the nations of the world. History will remember him as a hero who not only changed the...
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New Hope for the Agunah
Rabbi Simcha KrausIt seems like there may be some light at the end of the tunnel. It is rather well known that one of the biggest problems facing Jewry today is what is commonly called the plight of...
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Paying the Price
Benny PolatseckWhat a deep hole a sex abuser digs. He not only destroys his victims, he destroys his own family. This is something that should not be over-looked. But neither should it deter us from...
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'Boy, Have We Given Them Ammunition!'
Arik EinsteinSometimes Rabbi Moshe Grylak disappoints me. And sometimes he inspires me. His editorial in this week’s Mishpacha Magazine is of the latter variety. It is one of those rare times where...
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Change Is Coming
Yair Lapid and Benjamin Netanyahu - Photo credit: Arutz ShevaThere are two segments of Jewry facing existential problems that could not be further apart religiously. The two segments are the American...
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