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Messages from God
Meir Gloiberman and Mordechai Binyamin Rubinstein: killed at Givat Zev (YWN)Yet another tragedy has befallen the Jewish people. This time it was a Shul under construction in the Givat Zev section of...
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Unintended Consequences
Photo that appeared in Mishpacha's print editionI have to give Mishpacha Magazine credit. They have finally published a picture of a woman in their print edition. It was in a wonderful mini bio about...
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Rethinking our Political Perspectives
Ashkelon after a Hamas rocket attack (LA Times)A ceasefire has been been declared by Israel and Hamas. Thank God. I hope it sticks. I do not want to see any more innocent people die or get hurt. On...
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The Sad Reality of MO-Lite
Teenagers in an MO high school (AJA)My views have not changed. If anything they have been reinforced by Avi Cement’s observations in a Jewish Press op-ed. Sometimes it seems like there are more...
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Antisemitism in America
A Jew being beaten by a mob in Times Square (ABC7)I’m sorry. I’m just not buying it. The American people are not antisemitic. Not even slightly. Not even in the face of a significant rise of...
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Violent Islamic Antisemitism
Jonathan Greenblatt (PBS)Esav Sonei L’Ya’akov. These famous words of Rashi recorded in his commentary in VaYishlach are cited often by certain types of Orthodox religious educators. They use those...
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Is There Justice for Domestic Abuse Victims in Boro Park?
To be honest, I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand I am outraged by Dan Glaun’s description of how domestic violence is handled in the Chasidic community of Boro Park. On the other hand, I...
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Uniting in Support of Ignorance
Andrew Yang meeting with Chasidic leaders in Boro Park (VIN)It is long past the time for Satmar Chasidim to realize they no longer live in pre-Holocaust Europe. That they live in 21st America. (For...
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Justice, Justice You Shall Seek
Charedi MK, Ya'akov Litzman (Jerusalem Post)Is it finally happening? Is there a breach in the wall of unified support by the Charedi populace in Israel of Daas Torah? Although there seems to be is...
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Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows
Naftali Bennett - the next prime minster of Israel? (TOI)For the first time in many years, it seems like Benjamin Netanyahu may soon be out of a job. From the Jerusalem Post: Barring last-minute...
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Introspection? Yes! But by Whom?
Israeli MKs Litzman, Deri, and Gafni (TOI)Rabbi Reuven Leuchter’s usually insightful column in Mishpacha Magazine is something that I often agree with. But his latest column is not one of them. In that...
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Conservative Rabbis and Outreach
Inspirational Havdalah ceremony at NCSYDepressing. That is the only way to describe the latest Pew Research poll (2020) about that state of American Jewry. The numbers are dismal. But unfortunately...
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Of the Progressive Left and Rabbinical Students
Dr. Irving Lebovics (JNS)I was somewhat amused by Am Echad co-chairman, Dr. Irving Lebovics open letter to American rabbinical schools. I have no idea what his Hashkafos are. But from the looks of the...
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The End of an Era
Naftali Bennett - Israel's next prime ministerMaybe it’s the lack of Tznius. Or Lashon Hara, Or the internet. Maybe that’s why the Charedi world in Israel has lost out. They have apparently failed in...
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Canceling Media Bias
Abraham Foxman in 2013 with then Vice-President Biden (VIN)Sometimes there is justice in the world of cancel culture. Of late, however, most of the canceling involved ‘canceling’ people that had...
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YU's Courageous Decision
Kay Lahusen (right) at a 1967 demonstration (WP)Gay rights activist, photojournalist Kay Lahusen died a few days ago at age 91. Back in prehistoric times (the late sixties) I was a post high school...
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Of Flag Wavers and Incitement
2018 Flag Dance March at Damascus Gate in the old city (JP)I will never forget it. June 6th 1967. That was the day the Jewish people recaptured East Jerusalem and the Temple Mount. This should not be...
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No Education and a Warped Sense of Ethics
Image from Rationalist JudaismI know Rabbi Natan Slifkin meant it tongue in cheek. But the sad reality is that his latest post praising Vizhnitz is exactly that: a tongue and cheek comment that...
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Truth or Fiction? A Former Moshichist Speaks Out
Chabad Shiluchim at the 2015 international conference in Crown Heights (HDB)I am going to do something today that I rarely do. I am going to publish in full a rather lengthy but I believe very...
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The Frumkeit Chase: Incrementalism, Indifference, and the Bottom Line
Invisible - NY City Council candidate Amber Adler (Politico)‘It doesn’t really bother me’. That comment in Politico was made by an Orthodox Jewish woman in New York about the increasingly common...
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