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One People United
Am Echad United's Dr. Irving Lebovics (Mishpacha)One of the things I focus upon here is Achdus – the unity of the Jewish people. Or more correctly the lack of it.Achdus is a goal that seems to be more...
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Epstein and Walder
Chaim Walder (TOI)Question: What do Jeffrey Epstein and Chaim Walder have in common? Answer: Everything! These two Jews were both evil and cowards. After having been exposed by their multiple victims...
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When Exercising One's Rights - is Wrong
Sephardi Chief Rabbi R' Yitzhak Yosef (Jewish Press)Sometimes the apple does fall far from the tree. This was surely the case with the late R’ Shmuel Auerbach whose religious zealotry caused one of the...
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Misplaced Compassion
On the right side of the issue: Rav Shmuel Eliyahu (VIN)Rav Shmuel Eliyahu is a hero. He is a principled man that stands up for justice. No matter the personal consequences. I really don’t know much...
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Cheering for Hailey. But...
Hailey Kops and her skating partner (TOI)In yet another very thoughtful article, Rabbi Jonathan Muskat expresses much of the same mixed feelings I have about 19 year old Hailey Kops. She is a Modern...
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The Final Word on Walder (I Hope)
I do not ever recall a reaction of this magnitude to the exposure of a sexual predator. No matter how prominent they were when they were exposed. This is not to say that those cases were swept under...
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Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman on Walder
R' Ron Yitzchok Eisenman (IJN)I thought everything that needed to be said about Chaim Walder was already said. I therefore thought my last post would be the final word on the subject. But last night...
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Is the Crack in the Wall Widening ?
R' Gershon Edelstein - considered one of the Gedolei HaDor One of the reasons Daas Torah is so powerful is the belief that it is the wisdom of God’s word as recorded in the Torah. It is the absolute...
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Common Sense and Jewish Education
New York Mayor Eric Adams (CBS)Sometimes I think common sense has left the building. At least our building - the house of Israel better known as the Jewish people. Not all of us by far. But a...
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There is Only One Place to Go to Report Sexual Abuse
Rabbi Eisnenman - on the right side of the issue It doesn’t seem to be ending. The reverberation from the shockwaves set off by the sordid Walder story are still being felt. I promised myself that I...
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A Day of Infamy
Proud Boys making white power gestures last year on January 6th (Guardian)There’s a lot to digest here on this day, January 6th 2022. To paraphrase FDR, ‘Last year - January 6,2021 – a date that will...
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Trump and the Chareidim
By Yakov Kerzner - Guest ContributorRabbi Yakov Kerzner (Beth Israel Synagogue)I received the following submission from Rabbi Yakov Kerzner who leads Beth Israel Synagogue, a Modern Orthodox Shul in...
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A Specially Trained Beis Din is Not Enough
Telling it like is: OU Executive Vice President, Rabbi Moshe Hauer (OU)I wish I could say, ‘Finally!’ Finally – after much hemming and hawing - and being on the wrong side of the sexual abuse problem...
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An Unprecedented Divide - And the Unspoken Victims
R' Moshe Sternbuch (Wikipedia)It’s a never ending saga. Something the Charedi world has never experienced – at least to my knowledge. People are still talking about Walder as though the revelations...
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Why I Won't Sign the 'One Kotel' Petition
A 2017 egalitarian service at the Kotel (NIF)As Orthodox Jew I see the Torah as the foundational document of Judaism. Without the Torah, there is no Judaism. It is Halacha - the mandatory laws stated...
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Let's Just Call Them All Jews. Really?!
Russian emigres arriving in Israel in 1989 (My Jewish Learning)This has to be one of the stupidest moves Israel will ever make. According to the Jewish Press, 400,000 non Jewish Russian immigrants...
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Message to Agudah - Put Them in Cherem!
Above::Rabbis Mirvis & Sacks - Below: Reuven and Mizrachi (Rationalist Judaism)Rabbi Natan Slifkin’s latest post says it all. Better than I ever could. I will however add the following thoughts.The...
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A Charedi Mafia of Death Threats and Vandalsm
Photo for illustration purposes only.If they really wanted it to stop, it would. From VIN - here is what happened recently: The Charedi “Cell Phone Mafia” has been wreaking endless havoc on stores in...
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Upon Further Review...
Rabbi Zev Cohen (Mishpacha)One of the things that I have been particularly religious about is my belief that all incidents of sexual abuse must be reported to the police. That rabbis are not the ones...
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Hatred is Not a Good Kiruv Tactic
One of the hostages - Reform Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker (Dallas News)It’s a pity that it has come to this. Recent events in Israel (e.g the Kotel controversy) have widened the chasm between Orthodoxy...
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