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The PITTS
The transgender Secretary of Health, Rachel LevineI have yet to fully understand the transgender phenomenon. And continue to have mixed emotions about it. This issue once again surfaced in a recent...
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Tolerance Can Only Go So Far
Chasdim protesting government guidelines last year (Times Union)I try. I really do try to be tolerant of fellow Jews whose religious views do not match my own. Most of the time I succeed. But there are...
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5783 - Reflections and a Prayer
Rosh Hashana 5784 (USA Today)It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity,...
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The Virtual Infallibility of Subjective 'Daas Torah'
Yeshiva students protesting the arrest of one of their own (VIN)It isn’t their fault. Although they are surely responsible for their own actions - the protesters are simply victims of a culture that...
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Two Views on Israel's Supreme Court Controversy
Leslie Stahl (Screenshot - 60 Minutes)The war rages on. No... I’m not talking about Ukraine. I’m talking about Israel. The sad reality is that Israel is more divided between left and right than the US...
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On Our Way to the Holy Land
Screenshot of a street in RBS GimmelAs is our custom at this time of year, my wife and I are off to the holy land for Yom Kippur and Sukkos. (We are currently airborne and scheduled to arrive at about...
View ArticleLimited Access
Please note: Thrre is very limited internet access here, The maximum level filter prevents me from doing any.research on any subject. Trying to find a workaround so that I can continue posting while I...
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Papal Indifference to the Genocide of the Jews
Pope Pius XII (CNN)What did Pope Pius XII know and when did he know it? For those who don’t know - Pius XII was the pope during the Holocaust. He is currently under consideration for beatification by...
View ArticleBeing Single in a World of Married People
It seems like things are getting worse. Judging by the amount of ink (both real and virtual) spilled on the subject, one would think that the increase in Jewish women ‘doomed’ to a life of singlehood...
View ArticleYom Kippur 5784
As we are about to enter Yom Kippur, I wish to ask all readers and commentators for Mechila. If in any way I hurt you, it was not intentional and I truly regret it. Let us all pray that God grant a...
View ArticleWhy Are LGBTQ Rights More Sacred than Religious Rights?
I’m sure they are just a minority, but when Jews start acting like Nazi Germany, I have to question their very Judaism. It doesn’t matter what they look like. They can look like the most pious Charedi...
View ArticleWhat if…
I am not in the habit of asking ‘what if’ questions. Once you go down that road, the possibilities are endless. There would be no such thing as convicting anyone of a crime no matter how serious. What...
View ArticleA Lemon That Turned Into Lemonade
It seems they were successful. Extremists on the left stood up for egalitarian principles by disrupting an outdoor Kol Nidrei service Sunday night. They forcibly removed the makeshift Mechitza set up...
View ArticleSukkos 2023
Been really busy enjoying my family here in Israel.Nevertheless I wanted to take this opportunity to wish all of my readers and commentators a joyous Sukkos.Chag Sameach to all!
View ArticleIs Elon Musk an Antisemite?
That question is pretty silly considering the amount of broad support he has gotten from a wide range of Jewish leaders. Leaders, however, that do not fit the mold of the liberal left secular pundits...
View ArticleExtremism on Behalf of One’s Principles
Barry Goldwater, the Conservative Republican Candidate for President in 1964 defended the John Birch Society (an ultra conservative group Whose views bordered on racism and antisemitism) by saying,...
View ArticleWhat a Bunch of Idiots!
I cannot believe how stupid the the extremist right wing Republicans in the House are. They would sooner destroy the country, than allow their principles to be compromised. This is yet another example...
View ArticleSpitting on Non Jews
So what else is new? We once again have the spectacle of spitting Charrdim. Only this time it was against Catholic priests. Not that this is the first time this particular vile act had happened,...
View ArticleYom Tov Sheni
I am told by reliable sources that Agudah Moetzes member and current Rosh HaYeshiva of Net Israel, Rav Aharon Feldman only keeps one day of Yom Tov when he is in Israel. That is unlike most other...
View ArticleWe Are Safe
So, My wife and I were on our way to our son’s Shul Shabbos morning, Simchas Torah in Israel. It was a about 8:20 AM. The sky was blue. The temperature was about 75 degrees in what seemed like a...
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