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Three Times as Many Charedim Over 60 are Dying
Preparing COVID victims for burial (VIN)I happened to hear an old song on the radio in my car yesterday by Queen called ‘Another One Bites the Dust.’ It was one of the most popular songs of 1980 when...
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4 Lessons We Have Not Learned During COVID
Guest Contribution By Rabbi Shmuel MaybruchRabbi Shmuel MaybruchIt has been a year since Coronavirus became a household word. Last Adar, it began to make international headlines and impact how people...
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More than Ever - Our House is Divided
Image from Newsday‘A house divided against itself cannot stand.’ These words spoken by an Illinois legislator in 1858 (pre-Civil War) about slavery. His name was Abraham Lincoln. He also said the...
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Does the Cancel Culture Really Exist?
Former NYT columnist, Bari Weiss - canceled for defending IsraelOne of the things I have noticed when reading comments from the political left and the right is that term ‘cancel culture’ is used...
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Defending Charedim
Mainstream Yeshiva students (Mir) in Israel (AL-Monitor)In Shakespeare’s tragedy, ‘Julius Caesar’, Marc Antony begins his famous eulogy for Ceasar by saying he came to bury Caesar, not to praise him....
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Reality and Disillusionment
In yet another moment of reflection about the Orthodox community, Jonathan Rosenblum tries to reconcile commitment to it with the contradictions he sees within it. He made note of this in an essay he...
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Equality Does Not Mean Equal Outcomes
Declaration of Independence author, Thomas Jefferson One of the differences between the political left and right is in the definition of equality. One might wonder how there can be any differences? Who...
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Am I Charedi?
Is he Charedi? (MJL)Last week during the course of a conversation I was having with one of my granddaughters she happened to mention in passing that she considers me Charedi. Being Charedi herself, I...
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In the Era of COVID Funerals Will Beget Funerals
Charedi volunteer providing in home care to a COVID patient (NYT)The New York Times is not really known for its impartiality towards Israel or Orthodox Jews. I don’t think this is arguable. They have...
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When Will They Ever Learn?
Will this save Conservative Judaism? (NJJN)Albert Einstein once said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.” His momma didn’t raise...
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Good Intentions - Bad Advice
Robin DiAngelo (Daily Wire)There are very few things I abhor more than racism. The fact that it exists at any level is extremely troubling to me. I cannot imagine what it means to be black in America...
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Abortion Rights and Religious Rights
Reconstructionist Rabbi Megan DohertyI have nothing personal against Reconstructionist Rabbi Megan Doherty. In fact she seems to pretty knowledgeable about Jewish Law. Which doesn’t surprise me. As I...
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More than One Way to Skin a Cat
There has been a lot of ink spilled lately in Mishpacha Magazine about Shiduchim. In the non Chasidic Charedi world there is really only one acceptable way for young people to get married. Through a...
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Is SNL Antisemitic?
Michael Che doing 'Weekend Update' (Washington Post)I do not believe that Saturday Night Live’s Michael Che is an antisemite. Nor do I believe that SNL’s producers and writers are antisemites. And yet...
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To 'Hollywood' We are Racist and Misogynistic Weirdos
Screenshot from Nurses (TOI)I saw the episode. Because of TV production problems due to COVID, NBC is starved for new content and they are looking for it outside of their usual fare. In one instance...
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The Yahrzeit of COVID
Rabbi Yaakov Perlow, ZTLRabbis Yaakov Perlow, Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, Dovid Soloveitchik, Yitzchok Sheiner, Abraham Twerski, Dovid Feinstein, Chaim Meir Wosner, Mordechai Gurary, Yehudah Leib Groner,...
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Is the Equality Act Fair?
Former male cyclist Rachel Mackinnon competing with women (BBC)Rabbi Efrem Goldberg did a masterful job. A while back he gave a lecture on gender dysphoria – more commonly known as transgenderism. The...
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What Will Normal Look Like in the Aftermath?
Setting up chairs for an outdoor Minyan (Mosaic)As an Orthodox rabbi that rejects the legitimacy of the Conservative movement I nevertheless really respect this Conservative rabbis views. I can’t think...
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JWed.com Surpasses 3,500 Married with 65% Initiated by Women
by Derek Saker, Co-Founder and CMO of JWed -----------------------------------------communicated---------------------------------------At JWed.com (formerly...
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A Bad Decision by the Israeli Supreme Court
Reform Rabbi Rick Jacobs (wiki)In a somewhat disappointing development (at least to me) Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled that people who ‘convert’ to Judaism under the auspices of the Reform movement...
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