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Gone, a Real Democracy - True or False?
Updated There is no better illustration of the utter nonsense that passes for objective journalism then the content of 2 prominent Jewish newspapers: The far left Ha’aretz and the far right Jewish...
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Teaching Charedim in Israel to Fish
Image for illustration purposes (Matzav)The importance of Torah study to the Jewish people cannot be understated. First because it tells us exactly what Judaism is all about. Which is what God requires...
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Feminism and the Frumkeit Chase
Images from the Jewish Life Photo Bank (RNS)I can hear the laughter. Again. To the amusement of many of my friends on the left who actually are feminists by today’s definition, counting myself as a...
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A House Divided
IJN editor and publisher, Rabbi Hillel Goldberg (Amazon)Is Israel a racist country? Does prejudice and resentment drive the typical Israeli? The answer may not be as obvious as one might think. Those...
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Will Trump get a Second Term as President?
Special Counsel Jack Smith announcing the indictment (CBS)It is shocking that the polls indicate a dead heat between Trump and Biden. Politco reports the following: Joe Biden and Donald Trump are tied...
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Gay Adoption in Israel
Israel's Supreme Court to hear challenge to gay adoption law (TOI)Updated*I get it. In fact I even sympathize with it. And yet I am ultimately opposed to it.One of the primary reasons for supporting...
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Is a Simple Majority Override Off the Table?
Aryeh Deri (Left) with Isaac Herzog (Wikipedia)I was recently forwarded another editorial by IJN editor and publisher, Rabbi Hillel Goldberg. Therein he makes the case for the judicial reform Israel’s...
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When a Jew Murders an Innocent Arab
Image of clash for illustration purposes (Arutz Sheva)Very few things that happen in the world make me as angry as the following incident reported in Arutz Sheva: PA sources claimed that Jews from the...
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The Jewish People - One Nation Under God
Is a civil war in Israel really on the horizon? Are there really Israelis that would leave their country if it does not continue to follow the path of its liberal, secular, socialist founders? Is the...
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Eating Bread by the Sweat of Your Brow
Charedi women in the workplace (JNS)Eighty percent of Charedi women in Israel work. That statistic reported by JNS might lead one to see that as a victory of sorts for feminism. The traditional role of...
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Condemnations -Too Little, Too late
Housing Minister and UTJ head, Yitzchak Goldknopf (Jewish Press) “One who makes his friend pale with embarrassment has no place in the World to Come- whoever the Jew is, and IDF soldiers are also...
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A Program for Christians at YU
Christian students in YU's masters program looking into a Chumash (JTA)I was quite pleased to see JTA/Jewish Week report that YU (Yeshiva University) is now offering a masters degree program designed...
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Charedi Ethics
Charedi Posek R' Moshe SternbuchThe contrast is stark. Michael Feldstein - who is himself MO (Modern Orthodox) - has a thought provoking column in the Jewish Link about why there is such a dearth of...
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Who Will Be the Next President?
Green Party candidate Cornell WestWell… is everybody ready for Trump’s second Term? Not that long ago, I thought that was as likely as a Marianne Williamson presidency. (Yes, she is running again. But...
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Who by Fire...
Cars on the road suddenly destroyed by a fast moving wildfire in Maui (Daily Mail)I do not recall a natural disaster producing frightening images like the ones coming out of the Hawaiian island of...
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The Making of Real Gadol Requires Courage
Rav Dov Landau (VIN)I am not in the habit of using DUS IZ NEIS (DIN) as a source for my commentary. Although I often agree with the writer’s perspective, I find his anti Charedi bias to be so over the...
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Due to circumstances beyond my control there will be no new post today. (Don't worry. Everyone is fine.)
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A Freak Accident and a Couple of Weddings
So here’s what happened. My wife had a freak accident yesterday. Long story short her leg got wedged between the front wheel of her car and the paved parking space behind my house. That required a...
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The Truth About Daniel
Daniel Amram (YWN)Very few things upset me more than when a Chilul Hashem is made. Especially by people who literally wear their religion – not only on their sleeve but all over their body. I am not...
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Shomrim: Asset or Liability
Jacob Daskal (Ynet)I have always had mixed feelings about Shomrim. But I am increasingly seeing them as more problematic than helpful. Shomrim was founded by Jacob Daskal to protect vulnerable and...
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