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America Needs You, Harry S. Truman
Religious Palestinian Muslims Celebrating (Jewish Press)Once again the entire Jewish world is united.Three young Yeshiva Bachurim – teenagers (one of whom is an American citizen) were kidnapped last...
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A More Sober Analysis
The Kotel yesterday as 30,000 Jews prayed for the safe return of 3 kidnapped teensWith all the problems going on in Yiddishkeit today - and there are a lot of them - it is difficult to talk about any...
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Horseshoes and Hand Grenades
Last year’s Maharat graduation ceremony - (Forward)I guess there is no more pretense. Rabbi Avi Weiss is in the business of giving women Semicha. This means they are rabbis. They will Paskin. You can...
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Placing the Blame on the Wrong People
MK R' Shai Piron, former co-head of a Hesder YeshivaI have to take issue with Jonathan Rosenblum’s latest column in Mishpacha Magazine. Jonathan predicted last year that Yair Lapid and his Yesh Atid...
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Another Frum Jew Goes to Prison
Former Jerusalem Mayor, Uri LupolianskiI had hoped I would never have to see this headline: Ex-Mayor Of Jerusalem Sentenced To 6 Years Prison In Bribery Case. But this is the headline at VIN this...
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An Unholy Routine
What kind of Chinuch do these parents give their children? (TOI)I have been debating about whether I should say anything about a performance of a 12 year old boy on the TV show, America’s Got Talent...
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The Billion Dollar Question: Can Yeshiva University Survive?
Rav Ahron Soloveichik, ZTL - proponent of Torah U'MadaThere is only one Yeshiva University. There are many ‘Lakewoods’. I have no issue with Charedi Yeshivos like Lakewood whose purpose it is to learn...
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The Reason These Boys Were Kidnapped Is…
Charedi man walking near home of abducted teen Eyal Ifrach (VIN)Here we go again. Once again we are beginning to hear ‘the reason’ for a tragedy. In this case the kidnapping of three Yeshiva students...
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Defining Modern Orthodoxy
R' Aharon Lichtenstein - a Centrist IconDefining Orthodoxy is fraught with peril. It is virtually impossible to get a consensus on what its parameters are. Of course there are some segments that define...
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A Clueless Leader
Rav Ovadia Yosef, ZTL and Rabbi Shalom Cohen in a 2000 photo (Forward)If you like living in the dark ages and in poverty… and love hateful rhetoric, Rabbi Shalom Cohen is your man. In case you don’t...
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The 'Godless' Knesset
Members of the Knesset reciting Tehilim for the 3 kidnapped Yeshiva students. Note Mechitza in the back. Front row 2nd from right: MK Dov LipmanWhat does Amalek look like? It doesn’t take much to find...
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Pride and Prejudice
Once again, we are being subjected to what is now being called a Pride Parade. (The word ‘Gay’ has been dropped from the name). This has become an annual event sponsored by LGBT (the Lesbian, Gay,...
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A Glorious but Imperfect Legacy
Typical of the ubiquitous Meshichist postersThere has been a lot of discussion about the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rav Menachem Mendel Schneersohn over the last couple of weeks. Several books have been...
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Listening to the Voice of Mama Rachel
Guest Post by Rabbi Dovid LandesmanEyal Yifrach, Naftali Frenkel, and Gilad ShaarA unique event took place last night in Tel Aviv’s Kikar Rabin. Some eighty thousand people, religious and secular,...
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Baruch Dayan HaEmes - May God Avenge Their Blood
Naftali Fraenkel, Gilad Shaar, and Eyal Yifrah.It is impossible for me to imagine. My mind will not allow it. I cannot put myself in the place of the parents who have lost their children. It is too...
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A Legacy of Achdus
Rally at Kikar Rabin on the night before bodies were discovered (Forward)My thoughts today are with the families of Eyal Yifrah, Gilad Shaar, and Naftali Frenkel. My heart goes out to them. There are...
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Daas Torah - Is there Really Strength in Numbers?
Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm, President Emeritus of Yeshiva UniversityGil Student calls it a ‘cheap shot’. I suppose you can look at it this way. Former Yeshiva University President Dr. Norman Lamm wrote an...
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Two Rebbes and a Mashgiach
Bostoner Rebbe of Har NofAs if on cue, the bitter enmity returns. I don’t really know too much about the Bostoner Rebbe. But I do know that I do not like what he said recently in commenting about the...
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Revenge is Not Sweet!
Bnei Akiva Head, Rabbi Noam PerelI know there is a lot of anger. That is a natural reaction once the grief has moderated a bit. I am angry too. In the past when I experienced anger like this I have...
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The Barbarians within Our Gate
Mohammed Abu Khudair (The Jewish Press)First I want to clearly state that people are entitled to a trial and are presumed innocent until proven guilty. What I am about to say should be taken with that...
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