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The Consequences of Speaking Truth to Power
There is a lengthy Makor Rishon article (translated from the Hebrew on Rationalist Judaism) about an interview with three Charedi rabbis in Israel. These were no ordinary run of the mill rabbis:All...
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Wives of Soldiers for the Sanctity of the Camp
There is something incongruous about a group calling themselves ‘Wives of Soldiers for the Sanctity of the Camp’ supporting recent comments made by former Sephardi chief rabbi, Yitzhak Yosef. Who said...
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Fulfillment as a Jewish Woman
Australia’s first Orthodox women’s Torah reading group 35 years agoWhenever one of those freezing, blizzardy days typical of Chicago winters comes along on a Shabbos, just before I am about to leave...
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American Jews and Christmas
White Christmas composer, Irving BerlinA lot of my close friends hate this time of year. Which might be understandable if one is an observant Jew who is proud of his heritage and remembers what...
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Due to unforeseen circumstances which were beyond my control, I will be involved in a personal matter for a good part of the day. I will therefore not have enough time to write a new post. Please be...
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Devout Jewish Heroes? Or Rodfim?
Torched mosque on the West Bank (JTA)This is not OK. Revenge attacks against mosques on the West Bank do not solve anything. All they do is reinforce world animosity towards Israel. And even worse,...
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Number 5
There will be no new post today. Only this time it is because my wife and I will be in Lakewood attending the Bris of our newest great-grandson. My time will be divided between traveling there and back...
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The Truth from Someone Who Lives There
How many people think the following narrative (excerpted from Rationalist Judaism) about Gaza – both past and present - is exactly right? That it is the true story to the exclusion of the narrative of...
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The 6 Day War and the Pager Plot
I have to admit, I was pleasantly surprised. A segment of 60 Minutes last Sunday was a throwback to 1967. A time when Israel was the darling of the mainstream news media. As is typical of the left,...
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Public Menorah Lighting Ceremonies
Image from the official website of the Ukraine PresidencyI have certainly had issues with Chabad-Lubavitch. Issues that I believe still exist, although mostly beneath the surface. The idea that their...
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The Yellow Journalism of Matzav
Rabbi Dovid BashevkinThe sensationalist headline in Matzav has to be one of the sickest distortions ever made by them. They implied that Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin (and by inference, NCSY and the OU)...
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Israel, Media Bias, and the UN
Hamas weapons discovered in a previous IDF hospital raidIf there were one thing that I think ought to be a universal and primary goal for the Jewish people in 2025, it would be to fully discredit the...
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Jimmy Carter - the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Camp David Accords (TOI)I can’t do it. I can’t join the chorus of what seems like endless praise for Jimmy Carter, a man who in my view has done so much harm to the Jewish people - and even to the...
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Charedi Insight about IDF Service
Should 70% of these students serve in the IDF?Rabbi Chaim Goldberg forwarded a couple of lengthy articles to me dealing with Charedi army service. One (which includes an introduction by him) was by...
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Profiling Muslims
Radical Islamists of ISISMost Muslims are not radicalized. I believe that no matter how they feel about Israel or the Jewish people that most would never commit an act of terror. Living as I do in a...
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The Irresistible Force Meets the Immovable Object
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz (VIN)I don’t know how long this game of cat and mouse between the IDF and Charedim is going to go on. But sooner or later there is going to be a reckoning. A price...
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An Ugly American
Candace Owens (CNN)Whenever I see the supposedly conservative political pundit, Candace Owens, I think to myself, ‘How ugly!’I don’t see how anyone that ugly can look at themselves in the mirror...
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When Prominent Jews Embrace Christianity
David Brooks and Bob Dylan (JTA)When 2 very high profile Jews - who are each in their own way role models - embrace Christianity, it should be a matter of concern to all of us. Even if they were never...
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Are Frum Podcasts Dangerous?
I’m glad to know that I’m somewhat of a dinosaur. I actually kind of knew that. Bloggers like me are pretty much going the way of the dinosaur. (But I carry on.)Strangely enough that point was made by...
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Returning Conservative Judaism to its Roots
Schechter Queens/Queens Hebrew Academy (JTA)The Conservative movement has always fascinated me. Especially since its very name was meant to reflect its reason for being. Which was to conserve Judaism...
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