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Haver
Failed attempt to ban the internet at Citi Field Stadium in 2012 Just when I thought that the reality was sinking in with respect to the use of the internet, I find that there are some Charedi leaders...
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The By Product of an Isolationist Philosophy
Charedim in Bnei Brak 2012 (Ha'aretz)One of the virtues of isolating a community is that it enables its members to instill its values in their children without the fear of outside influences and...
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As I Was Saying...
Full time Torah study - Not for everyoneWell... I guess they were not from the extremist settler groups ala the Price Taggers. But the Jewish terrorists who murdered 16 year old Muhammed Abu Khdeir by...
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Killing Them with Kindness
An Orthodox Jew embraces the bereaved Palestinian father (Flash 90 via VIN)There have been no Jewish casualties in the latest conflict between Israel and Hamas. Our prayers and our Hishtadlus are...
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Satmar and Agudah - Some Unfinished Business
As rockets continue fly over Israel today thankfully there have not - thank God - been any Jewish casualties. And as before the casualties continue to mount in Gaza. That the Palestinian population in...
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Rav Aharon Leib Shteinman - a Role Model for Greatness
Rav Aharon Leib Shteinman and Avishai AbrahamiWith all the bad news coming out of the Middle East pertaining to our brothers and sisters in Israel, I thought I would share an uplifting story about one...
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Unwanted Physical Contact of a Sexual Nature
Elimelech MeiselsRabbi Elimelech Meisels is a tremendous Talmid Chochom, a co-author of Hashkafic works, and stemming from a distinguished family. He is an incredible Mechanech. Thousands of girls can...
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Should Women Seek to Marry a Kollel Man?
What every Charedi woman wants her future husband to be a part ofAn article on the so called Shiddach crisis in the Charedi world appears in Gil Student’s Torah Musings. The author, Efraim Vaynman...
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Frum Footsteps
Guest Post by Allison JosephsAllison Josephs (right) seen with her 'partner in Torah', actress Mayim BialikOne of the most troubling issues for Orthodox Jewry in our day is the fact that there are so...
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Questions About the Satmar Rebbe
Satmar Rebbe, arriving in Switzerland on the Kasztner transport from Bergen-Belsen In a hard hitting 2 part article in Tablet Magazine (part two is here) about R’ Yoel Teitlebaum - the Satmar Rebbe,...
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Bring Them Home Safely
As our young men in Israel enter Gaza to do battle with our enemies who wish to annihilate us I am posting this prayer composed by the Chief Rabbinate asking God to protect them and make them...
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Staying the Course in the Face of a Successful Tactic
Whose fault is it?Early this morning I turned on the radio on my way to Shul to hear the latest on the situation in Israel. I heard a reporter say that there were a large number of Palestinian...
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A Jew is Required to Learn Torah, Period
Guest Post by Yossie Litwak*In a recent post I wrote about changes happening in the Charedi world that impacts on their Shiddach situation. I received the following e-mail from a young man deeply...
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For the duration of Operation Protective Edge I am hosting an advertisement free of charge for an organization known as the Israel Free Loan Association (IFLA). It is located to the right and is a...
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Message to Elimelech Miesels: Time to Come Clean
Meisels (top left) pictured in a flyer together with R' Matisyhau SalomonThe rockets are still flying from Gaza into Israel. And our brave soldiers have entered Gaza risking their lives for our...
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Two Israel Haters
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi PillayI laughed so hard - I almost choked on my doughnut this morning when I read this little news item on VIN: Israel may have committed war crimes by...
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Another Round of Achdus - for Now.
Nahal Brigade soldiers carry Sgt. Eitan Barak, 20, to his resting place (JP)Once again we are displaying an incredible degree of Achdus. Every time we are in pain or are our mortal existence is...
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Israel's Moral Imperative
The war continues. Our people in Israel are under constant attack by Hamas firing rockets at them continuously. Non stop. IDF soldiers are on the front trying to destroy Hamas’s ability to strike us....
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Let us Not Lose This Moment
From the Facebook page of Gal GadotThere are many people who comment on my blog that add tremendous value to it. Their comments are thoughtful and very often enlightening. One of those whose comments...
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The New Anti-Semites in the Old Anti-Semitic World
Protest in France on July 13 of this year (VIN)Having just perused various articles pertaining to the situation in Israel, I noticed that there is little I can comment upon where I haven’t already done...
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