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Six Comments
By Paul Shaviv Netanyahu announcing a delay in the vote (Chronicle)Prime Minister Netanyahu may have just spared his country from yet another new election if not a disaster of unprecedented proportion....
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How Pervasive is Transgenderism, Really?
An example of the mixed transgender messages in our culture (CDC)My views are well known by now. I stand second to no one when it comes to feeling tremendous sympathy for what transgender people go...
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The New Law Banning Bread in Hospitals on Pesach
I have mixed feelings about this. Not that I disagree with the law. But because of the timing and a history of negative perceptions about Charedi politicians. Fromi24 News:The Knesset (Israeli...
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My Thoughts About Trump's Criminal Indictment
Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg (NBC)No one is above the law. That is the American way. No matter what the transgression. The law is the law. When it is violated justice demands the...
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Cholent Diplomacy
Charedim in Bnei Brak serving cholent to protesters (Matzav)This is a case where popular perception does not match reality. Often perceptions are based on actions of the few that are generalized to...
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At Long Last - Justice Has Been Served
Malka Leifer in Israeli custody in 2018 (JTA)Justice delayed is justice denied. The truth is that in the case of Malka Leifer, justice was substantially delayed. Here is the story.In 2008 Leifer had...
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Charedi Enablers of Sexual Abuse in the UK
By Gershon Michael*Rabbi Chaim Halpern - a truly evil man (JC)One of the more upsetting things for me is the fact that rabbinic organizations refuse to condemn evil people within their orbit. The...
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Pesach 2023
Image -Times of IsraelWishing everyone a Chag Kosher VeSameach! The Tenth PlaguePour Out Your WrathExodusThe Four CupsWhy are Women Required to Recite the HaggadahSinas Chinam and PesachThe Fifth...
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It's Time. No More 'Mr. Nice Guy' for Israel
Maya and Rina Dee murdered by Palestinians last Friday (VIN) I can’t. It is just too hard. I can’t take it any more. It is too much! On one of our most joyous Yomim Tovim, Pesach, tragedy struck. From...
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An Inspiration for Us All
Oliver Ferber - A Champion in more ways than one (ESPN)I am in awe. I cannot even stand in his shadow. This is how I feel about Oliver Ferber, a young Jewish athlete whose running abilities are of...
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Two Israels
Image from JTAI have no clue what Israel’s future will look like. Some polls have shown that Netanyahu’s Likud Party would suffer a dramatic loss of seats if the elections were held today. Which party...
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Jerusalem Pesach – six notes
By Paul Shaviv Students in a girls high school n a Purim skit mocking Sephardic Jews. (TOI)Although I do not entirely agree with some of his conclusions, in the interests of fairness and balance, I am...
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A Defacto Win for Illiteracy
Image for illustration purposes (Jerusalem Post)A win that is equivalent to losing. This is how I view a recent decision by a New York state court to a lawsuit filed by Agudah against NYSED (New York...
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Netanyahu at His Best
Reserve soldiers protesting a judicial overhaul (TOI)Israel has been hurt. The bad publicity resulting from the massive protests over judicial reform legislation proposed by the current government has...
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Reflections on the Holocaust, America, and Antisemitism
President Biden meeting with survivors at Yad Vashem a while back (ABC)Today is Yom HaShoah - Holocaust Remembrance Day. This is the day Israel has chosen to annually mark what has to be the largest...
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Message to Conservative Rabbis
USY teenagers ;preparing for an upcoming event (JTA)This may come as a surprise (or even a shock) to frequent readers - considering my feelings about the movement itself and their dire future. But I...
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Fig Tree or Fig Leaf?
The Reform/Conservative Hebrew School: Yachad (JTA)Enrollment in Hebrew schools is plummeting. According to JTA: Even as the estimated number of Jewish children in the United States rose by 17% between...
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Should Israel be a Jewish State?
WZO Vice Chairman Yizhar Hess speaking to protestors (JTA)With every succeeding story about protests in Israel, it has become more apparent than ever what the controversy is really about. It is about...
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Falche Frumkeit
Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef supports excluding female doctors I can’t even begin to express how aggravating a news story like this is. Especially in light of all the protests against a...
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An Unprecedented Memorial Day in Israel
UTJ chairman Yitzhak Goldknopf,, MKs Meir Porush and Ya’akov Tessler (TOI)The current controversy plaguing Israel right now has opened up Pandora’s box of hatred that was simmering just below the...
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