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The Hair Covering Conundrum
Is it real?I was sent an article this morning authored by Rivkah Slonim. It is about women covering their hair and it appears on a Chabad Website.Virtually all Orthodox Jews and many non Orthodox Jews...
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Why I am Voting for Yesh Atid
Guest Post by Israel Future*Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid and party member, Dov LipmanThe following was sent to me by an observant Jew in Israel. I mention that only because of the anomaly of...
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A Sexual Predator Gets Arrested
Surveillance image of the accused (Yeshiva World News)I saw the headline this morning as I was scouring the news online. It reads: NYPD Arrests Suspect Who Inappropriately Touched Two Girls On 66th St...
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Who Would You Vote For?
From top L - R: Netanyahu, Herzog, Livni Bennett, Liberman Lapid & KahlonI like the American electoral system. Where the President is directly voted upon by the public. There are usually 2...
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Sex Abuse, Shonda, and Concealment
-----------------------------------------paid advertisement----------------------------------------Guest Post by Michael LesherAvailable at AmazonOne question I’m asked a lot about my new book, Sexual...
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The Disappearing Woman
There is an existential threat against the Jewish people. But this one is not external. It is internal. I am not talking about Neturei Karta. I have long ago written them off as well beyond the pale....
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Is Voting for UTJ - Voting for Sin?
Rav Shmuel Auerbach: How far has he fallen from the tree!I do not think I can overstate my bewilderment at Rav Shmuel Auerbach. At 84 years of age, he is considered by many in the Charedi world to be...
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Results and Analysis of my Poll
Israeli voter casting his ballotThe polls have closed. My poll, that is. Here is my snap analysis.The results (which can be seen on the right margin) are as follows. Out of 207 people voting, the clear...
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The Israeli People Have Spoken
Israeli PM, Benjamin Netanyahu celebrating after the close of pollsI am mildly amused at all the Netanyahu bashers attempt to cast him as a maniacal self centered politician that will say or do...
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A New Deal for Charedim?
United Torah Judaism MK, Moshe Gafni (Jerusalem Post)Now that all the bluster about the elections in Israel seems to be subsiding a bit, there is one area dear to me that has been under-discussed. What...
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United We Should Stand
Long may it wave!I hope we don’t stay divided. But if the rhetoric before and after the last election in Israel is any indication, my hopes may have already been dashed. The divisiveness seems to be...
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Echoing My Sentiments
Guest Post by AnonymousLatest 'Tznius aid' from a Lakewood modesty org. (FM)Last Monday I wrote about the disappearing woman. It was a post about the terrible direction the right seems to be going in...
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The Way We Were
R' Shenur Kotler as a senior Yeshiva student in ChevronWhen I was a Beis HaMedrash student at the Hebrew Theological College in Skokie, one of the senior students there asked Rav Mordechai Rogov, ZTL...
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An Unimaginable Tragedy
Gabriel Sasson at speaking at the funeral of his 7 children in Jerusalem (JP)I have hesitated commenting on the tragedy that befell the Sasson family last Shabbos. That’s because it is so painful for...
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To be Gay and Frum
Gay activist, Dasha Sominski (Tablet)To say I am reluctant to discuss this subject is an understatement. It always presents challenges. Especially from people who are gay. Some of them get upset with...
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I just received the following note from this champion of Jewish children, Rabbi Yakov Horowitz. I believe this is an important issue and feedback will help advance the cause of child safety. Please...
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The Corruption of Daas Torah
Centrist rabbinic leader, Rav Aharon Lichtenstein Once again, I have to give kudos to Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein. He is an Ish Emes… a man of truth that refuses to be cowed by excesses of the right. He...
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Why Did They Die?
Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein has an answerHe doesn’t look like s a Kabbalist. I don’t think he is a Sephardi either. Sephardim (Jews of Middle Eastern origin) tend to be more Kabbalistic than Ashkenazim...
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Keeping the State Jewish
What does it mean to be a Jewish State? To answer that question, we must first define what it means to be a Jew. For Orthodox Jews (leaving aside biological and conversion issues) it means following...
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A Deal at Any Price? Willful Ignorance? Or Both?
The Negotiating TableI cannot remember a foreign policy as disastrous as the one being followed by the President. The chaos in the Middle East is exhibit number one. As Arab nations like Iraq, Syria,...
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