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A Two Pronged Approach in Pursuit of Justice
Scene of a terrorist attack near Chevon (JTA)Justice, justice you shall pursue. This is the will of God as expressed by Moshe in last week’s Parsha (Devorim 16:20). JTA reports that 2 Jews were...
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Belz and Secular Studies
Image of Chasdic children for illustration purposes (VIN)Is the tide finally turning? From VIN: In a dramatic development in the charedi educational system, the Belz chasidim are close to integrating...
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Seeking Learners Only. Earners Need Not Apply
Learners - prime marriage materialAn article in VIN about the so-called Shidduch crisis got me to thinking again about how messed up the current system of dating is in the non Chasidic Yeshiva world....
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A Common Sense Approach to Issues of Modesty
I have long been an advocate of common sense. It is an essential part of my Centrist identity. And yet it seems to be a rare commodity these days. Ideology has kind of kicked common sense to the curb....
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Looks Can Tragically Be Deceiving
Rabbi Yosef Paryzer and Jake Segal (Jerusalem Post)Al Tistakel B’Kankan Elah Mah Sheyesh Bo (Avos 4:20). The English equivalent of which is ‘Don’t judge a book by its cover.’ (Not a translation.) This...
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Is Brotherhood Among Jews an Unreachable Goal?
Image from Mishpacha for illustration purposesI admit it. I am a fan of Jonathan Rosenblum. I can’t help it. Jonathan is probably the most intelligent, educated, and articulate spokesmen that the...
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Hate Has a Home in Israel
Haaretz publisher, Amos Schocken (Israel Hayom)‘Charedim are carriers of a most serious disease that could destroy Judaism and make it something monstrous. A disease of condescending, arrogant, and...
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Ayelet Hashar Saidof -Too Stupid for Words
Mothers on the Front rally last week (Jewish Press)Sometimes the ‘devil’ is right. In what can easily be summed up as an Israeli hate group (…yes, hate has a home in Israel), ‘Mothers on the Front’ is...
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Words Are Cheap!
Bet Shemesh Mayor, Aliza Bloch (Jerusalem Post)I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired. The truth is that I am more than ‘sick and tired’. I am about as angry as I have ever been about a group of...
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The Face of Today's Leadership
Rav Moshe Feinstein, ZTL (Wikipedia)In an online conversation I had with one of my very wise astute readers about - what amounts to the failure of Charedi leadership in our day he said the following:...
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Throwing a Cat into the Aron Kodesh
Rav Moshe Sternbuch (Arutz Sheva)A Charedi friend of mine once illustrated well the idea behind Kedoshim Tihiyu – the Mitzvah in the Torah of ‘being holy’. He did so in the following way:There is...
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The imminent Demise of Political Conservatism
I have often said that my political philosophy leans conservative. The reason I say ‘leans’ is because there are a few issues in which I would be considered liberal. (e.g. my support of keeping access...
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A Shana U’Pireish
Rabbi Victor Urecki playing with his grandson (JTA)I have to say that I am deeply disappointed. What started out as a cute ‘puff piece’ in JTA about a Lego building rabbi, ended up depressing me....
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The Yiddish 'Language'
The now extinct Forverts- a once very popular Yiddish newspaperI grew up speaking Yiddish to my parents. Did so until their dying day. I am in fact a fluent Yiddish speaker. Which is why my curiosity...
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Is President Biden a 'Useful Idiot'?
President Biden and Prime Minister Netanyahu (Axios)I stand second to no one when it comes to seeing former President Trump for the narcissist that he is. He is clearly a man who puts himself first -...
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Rabbi Hillel Belsky, ZL
Rabbi Hillel and Dr. Judy Belsky It is with a tremendous sense of sadness and loss that I report the Petirah (passing) earlier today of my Mechutan, Rabbi Hillel Belsky, my son’s father-in-law. Rabbi...
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Hating Lew and Hating Jews
Jack Lew (right) with former President Barack Obama (Ynet)There are few things that disturb me more than baseless hatred by one Jew against another. Morton A. Klein, the president of the Zionist...
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When Parents and Schools Collide
Beth Medrash Govoha, the ultimate Charedi student's goal.(APP)I recently heard a mother celebrating the Bar Mitzvah of her son talk about what she envisions for him in the future. It was made in the...
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Going to Dangerous Places - Uman’s Jewish Pilgrimage
Uman's Jewish Pilgrimage (My Jewish Learning)I never thought that pilgrimages to Uman by the Chasidim of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov (and assorted curiosity seekers) was a good idea. The mere thought of...
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A Movie that Illustrates the Demise of American Jewry
I had to watch it. There has been so much positive hype in the secular Jewish media about Adam Sandler’s latest movie, that I couldn’t resist. Adam Sandler is one of the funniest comic actors in the...
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