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A False Sense of Entitlement
ParCare CEO, Gary Schlesinger (Jewish Press)I don’t think there is anyone more excited about getting the COVID vaccine than I am. I literally can’t wait. Like many others, I am sick and tired of all...
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Will He Be Believed?
Rav Hershel Shachter (rabbidunner.com)‘Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.’ So said 19th century Scottish author, Sir Walter Scott. I note with dismay what fraud of the...
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The COVID Conundrum
Yetev Lev D’Satmar last October (Tablet)The question of what the pandemic has done to us as a people still plagues me. (No pun intended.) And by a people. I mean any of a number of groupings into...
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Jared Kushner's Legacy
Arab delegation from the UAE and Bahrain at the Kotel last Chanukah (TOI)There has been a lot of ink spilled on Jared Kushner over the last 4 years. Most of it by a Trump hating media that paints...
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The Chief
It’s been a slow news day. In fact it’s been a slow news week! Finding something new and excicting to talk about every day can be very challenging under any circumstances let alone one like this....
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COVID: Mitigation, Vaccines, and Conspiracy Theories
Vaccination in Tel Aviv (NYT)The New York Times’ Isabel Kershner reports the following: Israel could well become the first country to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, health officials said on...
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Is There a War Against Charedim in America?
A Chasidic teacher and his students (Cross Currents)Dr. Moshe Krakowski is someone I know, albeit not well. He grew up and was educated in Chicago having had the benefit of many of the same influences...
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The Changing Role of Women in Judaism
Judge Ruchie Freier and her husband (IDA)What is the role of a woman in Judaism? This is a subject that is so broad that I find myself wholly unqualified to answer it. And yet I often talk about the...
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A Rational Irrational People
Trump's base may be as big as 74 million people (AP)I am so sick of this guy! Lately every time I see his face on TV, I want to throw something at it! I say this despite my appreciation for all the...
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A New Day in America
Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock (Hollywood Reporter)The great Yogi Berra once said, ‘It ain’t over til it’s over.’ Well my friends, it may not be official yet, but…short of a miracle - it’s over. With...
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Insurrection!
'Protesters' storming the Capital (Wbur News)I am in a state of shock. This is the worst thing I have ever witnessed in America since the assassination of JFK. With even worse implications. And I...
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A Day that Will Live in Infamy
One of the rioters that broke into the Capital Building yesterday (Japan Times)I am still shaken. After what happened yesterday, it’s hard to talk about anything else. Every time I think about the...
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Ignorance, COVID, and Rav Asher Weiss
R' AsherWeiss (Lakewood Scoop)Even though the biggest news story of the day is the attack on Democracy by angry Trump supporters (and his part in it) there are other issues still plaguing us that...
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An Inappropriate 'What If' Question
Capital Police Last Wednesday (NPR)What if? That question can easily distort the significance of an event like the one that happened last Wednesday. But that question was asked be a few prominent...
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Misguided Enthusiasm of the President Must be Abandoned
What I am about to say, I say is with great trepidation. That is because I value my friendships greatly. I take pride in the fact that I count among my friends many people whose views span the...
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Impeaching the President: Good Idea or Bad?
Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi (Politico)It appears that the attack against the United States Capital building last week was not at all spontaneous. It was planned. Although it ultimately failed in...
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Hotel Corona
R’ Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, ZTL (Wiki)What the Jewish people needs now is more tragedy. Now there is a shocking statement if there ever was one. To be absolutely clear, I made that statement facetiously....
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Weaning Us Off of Trump!
I am occasionally taken to task for promoting unity only among Orthodox Jewry. Why, some ask, limit unity to Orthodox Jews? Shouldn’t we seek unity among all of our fellow Jews? Not just Orthodox Jews?...
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An Educational Failure
Chasidic school bus - image for illustration purposes only (Brownstoner)Most people have heard the joke about the fellow that killed his parents and then begged the judge for mercy because he was an...
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The ‘I Told You So’ Crowd Prevails
President Trump addressing his supporters on January 6th (NPR)One of the consequences of the Trump Presidency is the ‘I told you so’ phenomenon. It didn’t have to turn out that way. But it has been...
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