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The Decline of Common Sense
Protest against the shooting of Adam Toledo (Chicago Sun-Times)Justice was served in the Derek Chuavin trial. He was convicted on all three counts of murder in the death of George Floyd. There can be...
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Prejudice: What Goes Up - Must Come Down
Part of the title of this post is actually the opening words of a song called Spinning Wheel. it was performed by a sixties rock band called Blood, Sweat, and Tears. Which happens to be the title of...
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Here and There - The Loss of Common Sense
Torah Journal discussing stealing (Rationilst Judaism)There are two issues that have arisen in the Charedi world that seems to underscore the deficit of common sense among some of its leaders. One in...
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With sadness in my heart, I am sorry to report that my beloved sister-in-law, Anne Maryles passed away yesterday at 3 PM CDT. More about this exceptional woman tomorrow. There will be no new post...
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A Woman of Valor
Anne with my grandson Mordechai a few months agoLast February, my sister-in-law, Anne Maryles was the picture of health. Even at age 88. She looked at least 20 years younger. A lot younger than I look...
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About Last Night
In God we trust. Those are the words that have guided this country’s morals, ethics, and values ever since its founding. Although we are a secular country that does not have an official religion, those...
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An Unprecedented Tragedy in Israel
Rescue forces and police at the scene of the tragedy (Times of Israel)45 Jewish souls gone. Trampled to death last night in Meron. Among them an American student from New Jersey that was a classmate of...
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Imagine…
Lev Chabad members preparing food for victims’ families.(YWN) On the heels of one of Israel’s greatest tragedies, many of us are still reeling.. . struggling to understand what happened in Meron on Lag...
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It's Not Just About Making a Living
Chasidic store (Cross Currents)Rabbi Avi Shafran is brilliant writer whom I admire. He is also someone I agree with on the lion’s share of issues affecting the Jewish people. I consider him a friend. I...
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Conspiracy Theories, Antivaxxers, and Fence Sitters
Relatives in full PPE at a COVID funeral in India (Scroll)So I got the call on Friday. It was a lengthy robocall by a frantic woman who sounded very Charedi (of the East Coast variety) screaming about...
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How Do They Sleep at Night?
The Lag B'omer bonfire in MeronRabbi Natan Slifkin is right. The fault lies with the Charedi leadership. At least with the leadership that organized and promoted the Lag B’omer event in Meron last week...
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Why Did it Happen?
Some of the victims (Times of Israel)What we do here on earth matters. Actions or lack of them when they are needed - have consequences. That doesn’t mean that what happened in Meron was against the...
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If it Walks Like a Duck…
R' Yaakov Kamenetsky a rabbinic giant of the past (Wiki)How far we have fallen from the traditions of our parents. To the Orthodox right, tradition only seems to matter when there are stringencies....
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The Elephant in the Room
The Toldos Aharon death trap in Meron (Times of Israel)After reading some of the articles about the tragedy in Meron that have been published in various Charedi periodicals, I have to admit that they...
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Is it Truly in Our Hands?
Yom Yerushalayin -Violence on the Temple Mount (Times of Israel)‘Har Habayit B’Yadenu!’ The Temple Mount is in our hands. So was the joyful cry of the late Lieutenant General Motta Gur as he led the...
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The Enemy Within
I admit not paying much attention to the events that precipitated the latest attack against Israel. Now that it has escalated, I have gone back to see what exactly those event were. Some of it has to...
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Israel Must Finish the Job
Israel under attack (Times of Israel)No one is happier with the settler movement than Hamas. I can only imagine the joy they felt when Israeli courts ordered Palestinian families who have been living...
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Arabs - Guilty Until Proven Innocent?
An Israeli Arab beaten to a bloody pulp (Times of Israel)I wish we could revoke one’s Judaism. I wish there were a way we could strip that away from some people. Because there are some instances that...
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Where Do Arab Israelis Really Stand?
I’ve said this before. Rabbi Meir Kahane understood the Arab mindset better than anyone. I realize that coming after my strong condemnation of the Jewish psychopaths that follow him - this comment...
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The Legacy of Sinai*
There seems to an interesting contradiction in the Torah about our acceptance of the it at Sinai. On the one hand the Torah tells us that we, the Jewish people accepted the Torah without even knowing...
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