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Fighting for the Right to Remain Ignorant
A Yeshiva in Williamsburg (JTA)It is truly maddening when the truth gets obscured by politics and agendas. Let me therefore once again outline what I see as the truth about how the American Orthodox...
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Vaccination Passports and the Holocaust
Israeli performer holding up his Green (vaccination) Passport (Jerusalem Post)As a child of Holocaust survivors, there aren’t too many things that upset me more than people who use the Holocaust for...
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Reverting to the Failed Policies of the Past
Secretary of State, Antony Blinken (Wiki)The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Although the source of this piece of wisdom is unclear,...
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If Not for the Women...
The splitting of the Yam Suf - the reed (red) sea - is considered the greatest miracle of Pesach. I can only imagine the euphoria of that moment. Israel’s oppressors were taken down in one fell swoop -...
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Will Identity Politics Destroy Us?
Rachel Levine, Biden's cabinet level pick representing LGBTQ (Wiki)I am not a racist. When someone says that, he is often seen as having some degree of latent racism. Just like someone saying ‘some...
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Jewish Hate
Oded Menaster in his 2 roles (Mishpacha Magazine)There is a lot of hate in the world. Sorry to say that nowhere is this more true than among our own people. At least that’s what can be derived from an...
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A New Path to Help Free the Agunah
Chava Herman (Religion and Politics)Jewish law is not subject to social media pressure. I don’t think that is arguable. What the Torah tells us to do – or not to do - has nothing to do with how any one...
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It's About the Message - Not the Messenger
Satmar Rebbe of Williamsburg whose schools offer little if any secular studiesI hate this video! (See below) Even though I agree with everything it says. The idea behind what the 2 individuals in it...
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To the Left, Only the Right can be Truly Racist
Trump calling COVID -19 the Chinese Virus (News18)‘If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed.’ The ‘here’ in that comment is China. Which is a racist comment by any definition. How...
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Hasidic, Devout, and Mad as Hell...
What’s the difference between Chasidic communities like the one described in this article and the young college students that congregated during their recent spring break in Miami Beach? In my view...
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Where Religion is Dying - And Where it Isn't
Ross Douthat raises an interesting question in his New YorkTimes column. Why, Douthat (who is Christian) asks, is religion in America in such sharp decline? In case anyone doubts that, he quotes the...
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Iran and Brooklyn Center
Iran's Khameni and friends - making a deal with evil (TOI)How naïve I was before Trump. I used to see the media through rose colored glasses even though back then I thought those lenses were pretty...
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Foolishly Playing With Their Lives
Street scene in Boro Park (Library of Congress)Willful ignorance. If there is anything that can destroy a people, willful ignorance is it. There are many ways one can apply this maxim. I have said it...
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The Charedi Approach to Yom Ha'atzmaut
R’ Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman,ZTL (Wikipedia)This coming Shabbos, April 17th (corresponding the 5th of Iyar on the Jewish calendar) is Yom Ha’atzmaut - Israeli intendance day. It will be the 73rd...
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The Onus Is On Us!
Is there any wonder why flight attendants give them extra scrutiny?Rabbi Natan Slifkin’s latest post is yet another illustration of something that has been bothering me for what seems like forever....
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Are We Living Up to Our Billing?
Queen Elizabeth at the funeral of Prince Philip (Express)The Torah could not be clearer. We (the Jewish people) are a holy nation. The second of this week’s (double) Parsha declares in its opening...
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Where Are We Up to? And What Now?
Dr. Anthony Fauci getting vaccinated (Marketwatch)I have been very strict about adhering to the COVID protocols. I doubt that are too many people that have been more critical of scofflaws in this...
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Ignorance and Anger - A Prescription for Violence
I admit it. I am prejudiced. I generally do not judge ignorant people favorably. And yet it seems that at this particular moment in time, ignorance is driving the American agenda. Major cities have...
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Israel Must Tweak Its Democracy
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (WIN)One of the ironies of the current political situation in Israel is that the Israeli electorate leans heavily to the right and yet their political...
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Right Idea - But Too Late
Zoom religious service (Temple Aliyah)It might surprise some people to know that I lament the imminent demise of Conservative Judaism. Not because I agree with their version of Judaism. I do not. I...
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