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A Bright Light - Dimmed
Rabbi Michael BroydeWhat a sad day for Modern Orthodoxy. One of its brightest lights has been dimmed. According to a JTA report - the brilliant Rabbi Michael Broyde has been suspended indefinitely from...
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Déjà Vu in Boston
Scene form yesterday's horrific event in Boston - source: GawkerYesterday’s terrorist bombing in Boston should make one thing very clear. Something I already know. You cannot kill an idea.Ever since...
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Why Not a (Peaceful) Counter Rally?
IDF soldiers (Nachal Charedi)I don’t know who is behind this rally. But it is quite clear that those who are sponsoring it do not have any warm or fuzzy feelings for the State of Israel. Yet on this...
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According to the Times of Israel the Charedi publication Hamodia has called for establishment of their own autonomous zone in Israel. The feel that they have been mistreated. Here is how the Times put...
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Changing the Paradigm of the Charedi Jew
Photo credit: Israel Sun via Jewish ActionI have just read Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz’s article defending the Charedi way of life as the quintessential way for a Jew to live …and criticizing those who...
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Avrohom Birnbaum's Mistaken Umbrage
Rabbi Gil Student“Why are they so quick to snipe so resentfully at every perceived lapse of their chareidi brothers?”So reads the ‘pull quote’ in the middle of an article in the print version of the...
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The Dzhokar is Not Wild
Tamerlan and Dzhokar Tsranaev - Photo credit: ReutersIt seems that my suspicions about the motives of the Boston terrorist bombers were correct. This was not some crazy person going wild. This was a...
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Civil Liberties
Charedi classroom - Photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90 via Times of IsraelI find myself in the awkward position of defending actions that I abhor. According to an article in YWN - the arm of Israel’s...
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Terrorism and Immigration Reform
September 11, 2001One of the questions raised by the events in Boston last week is whether it should effect changes in US immigration policy.As a child of the Holocaust I am very sensitive to...
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Thank You
Rabbi Avi ShafranI am humbled. I have a received a lot of support since I was attacked (along with Rabbi Gil Student) in last week’s Yated. Support has come from all segments of Orthodoxy. Some of it...
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Another Fallen Religious Leader
Chief Rabbi of France Gilles Bernheim Photo credit: Getty images via the ForwardI do not know him at all – or anything about him, really. But I believe that Gilles Bernheim - the Chief Rabbi of France...
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The Preferred Approach to a Bris
Photo Credit: The ForwardThe Israeli Rabbinate has apparently weighed in on the the Metzitza B’Peh issue (MbP). Sort of. A complaint was filed by an anti circumcision activist against Yehudah...
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How Not to Win Friends and Influence People
Brisk (Israel) Rosh HaYeshiv, HaRav Dovid SoloveitchikI don’t know who Rabbi Gideon D. Sylvester is. Never met him or heard about him until now. A quick search on the internet informs me that he lives...
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Rabbi Birnbaum Apologizes – Sort of
Last week Gil Student and I were attacked in the Yated because of a perception that we go easy on our own people when they do wrong while being very hard on the right when they do wrong. I responded...
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Rav Steinman, Amalek, and Satmar
HaRav Aharon Leib SteinmanI don’t know who this “Rov” is. But it is beyond belief that anyone could suggest even the remotest suggestion that Rav Aharon Leib Steinman, a Zaken – an elder sage and...
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YU? or Columbia?
There is an excellent, albeit very lengthy article in The Eye - which is the weekly arts and culture magazine of Columbia's student newspaper, the Columbia Daily Spectator.It deals with campus life for...
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Is it Really Media Bias?
Prime Minister Netanyahu on Yom HaShoahI am a huge fan of Rabbi Emanuel Feldman. I rarely disagree with him. The former editor of Tradition Magazine and vice president of the RCA who led a Shul in...
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Deriding Black Hatters
One of my many goals in life as a Jew is the unity of the Jewish people. All Jews share the heritage of the Torah which is what defines us as Jews. That heritage belongs to all of us as was so...
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Training Wheels
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Lakewood’s Financial Coup
Lakewood Yeshiva (BMG) - Photo credit: lakewoodscoop.com via VINThis is one of those stories that worry me. VIN and NJ.com report that Lakewood Yeshiva (BMG) has been approved by the State of New...
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