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Today, I am a Ukrainian
I still find it difficult to wrap my head around what’s going on in the Ukraine. Putin’s invasion is about as irrational as I could have ever imagined. As is some of his ridiculous rhetoric...
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The Ugly Truth
Police removing a Charedi protestor who was blocking traffic (VIN)The contrast cannot be more stark. First the bad news.VIN reports of yet another Chilul HaShem disguised as a Kiddush HaShem. It is...
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The Russian Oligarchs
Russian oligarchs (Wikipedia)There has been a lot of talk about Russian oligarchs lately. Most of it negative. Most if it about the way they made their billions. During his State of the Union address,...
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LGBTQ Rights Versus Religious Rights
LGBT protest against 'Don't Say Gay' bill in Tallahassee (AP)The culture war goes on. The latest volley is a bill passed by Florida’s state legislature dubbed the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill by LGBTQ...
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Bye, Bye, Biden - Hello Trump
There is no one in politics today that is as polarizing as Donald Trump. Even now over a full year after he left office. His political base still adores him. They can’t get enough of him. They cheer...
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Can Truly Good People Do Exceptionally Bad Things?
Zivia Rotenberg (Limited Times)The sex drive is a very powerful force in human nature. It is as vital to human existence as is eating and sleeping. Eating and sleeping cannot be denied. The body will...
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Message to Agudah about the New NYSED Guidelines
Illustrative image from the Jerusalem Post (2020)I have not budged. I still believe that Yeshiva high schools must required to offer a secular studies curriculum by law. The fact is that most of them...
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The Need to Deny
Belz children at a Chumash party (VIN)It says a lot about the Charedi culture when Belz Chasidic leaders feel the need to deny something they must have actually approved of.According to a story in VIN,...
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Blatant Antisemitism or a False Alarm?
Image of Chasidic children for illustration purposes only (TOI - 2017)There is something terribly off about a YWN news report. Because if true, it would be one of the most blatant antisemitic acts...
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Stopping Putin and Nuclear War
Bodies being buried in a mass grave (Newsweek)It’s heartbreaking to see what’s going on in the Ukraine right now. Although nowhere near the same, some of the images coming out of the Ukraine have...
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Soooo... This is is Peerim
Me as Bachur in Lakewood during MinchaIt’s Purim. (Pronounced Peerim in Mamme Looshin.) Here's my story. It’s sad but true. It’s about a girl that I once knew.... NO... Wait! That’s an embarrassing...
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Rav Chaim Kanievsky, ZTL
Rav Chaim Kanievsky, ZTL at his home in Bnei Brak (Arutz Sheva)It is with great sorrow that I report the Petirah (passing) a few hours ago of R’ Chaim Kanievsky at age 94. He was a giant! A leader of...
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A Woman of Integrity
President Biden's nominee for SCOTUS, Ketanji Brown Jackson (AP)I often remind people of my politically conservative leanings. This has not changed. I am therefore quite happy that Supreme Court...
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Weakness is Provocative
Ukrainian war refugees in Poland (The Guardian)‘Menachem Begin (once said) when someone expresses the desire to exterminate you and your people, take him seriously.’ I found this reference to Begin by...
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Whither Daas Torah
R’ Gershon Edelstein (VIN)The passing of R’ Chaim Kanievsky, ZTL, has a lot of people in the Charedi world speculating about who will take his place of leadership . Although R’ Chaim in his great...
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A Liberal Justice I can Support
Ketanji Brown Jackson at her senate confirmation hearing yesterday (AP)If I were in the senate, I would vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the position of Associate Justice of the Supreme...
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Stunning Growth and Perpetuating Ignorance
Chasidic school bus (YWN)I continue to be amazed at how strongly right wing Orthodox groups like Agudah oppose New York state Education Department’s attempts to require Yeshivos to have a secular...
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Better Late Than Never
Chaim Walder (Jerusalem Post)Sometimes good things can result from bad things that came first. It appears that this is what happened here. The exposure of a Chaim Walder - a once beloved Charedi author...
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Who Can Compare... to Us?
Irena Sendler - a righteous gentile (Reuters)‘Mi K’Amcha Yisroel?’ The Gemarah tells us these are the words written on God’s Teffilin (as it were). It loosely translates to ‘Who can be likened unto...
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Why Orthdoxy?
The Kotel in pre state Palestine (TOI)I am always for compromise when it is Halachicly feasible. That’s why I have some issues with organizations like Am Echad which opposes any compromise on an...
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