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The Religious Freedom Restoration Act
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signing the Religious Freedom Restoration Act into lawFirst let me say that I unequivocally oppose discrimination of any kind. It is immoral in my view to treat people...
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A Challenge for our Time
Shulem Deen is one of many O Jews that are no longer FrumBy now it is fairly common knowledge that non Orthodox Jews are abandoning Judaism in unprecedented numbers. The oft quoted Pew study statistic...
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Perpetuating the Big Lie
Rabbi Pesach LernerI don’t know Rabbi Pesach Lerner at all. Never met him. But from what I have read about him, I know that he is the former Executive Vice President of the National Council of Young...
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The 4 Cups of Wine*
One of the requirements on the night of Pesach is the drinking of four cups of wine. There are many reasons for this requirement -one of the more famous ones being that they represent the four...
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Why the Deal with Iran is So Bad
Iran's Basij force Brigadier General Mohammad Reza NaqdiThe destruction of Israel is nonnegotiable. Commander of Iran's Basij force Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi has said that ‘erasing Israel...
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The Funeral that Killed Someone
Funeral of Rav Shmuel HaLevi Wosner, ZTL in Bnei Brak (VIN)One of the greatest Poskim of our time passed away last Friday at age 102. Rav Shmuel HaLevi Wosner, ZTL of Bnei Brak was one of the last of...
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Righting a Wrong
Charedim studying for professional degrees at Kemach - JTA (5/5/14)One of the most important achievements of the last Keneset in Israel is that it provided mechanisms for the Charedi world to enter...
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Knocking Out His Teeth
Inexcusable! (Forward illustration by Lior Zaltzman)When the Rasha (evil son) of the Hagadah asks his rhetorical question about the point of Pesach, the answer we give him is to be so sharp that it...
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The Whole World is Watching
Is this our legacy to the world?When I read the editorial on YWN (Yeshiva World News), I became sick to my stomach. And then it made my blood boil! I wanted to explode in anger. Not at YWN. But at the...
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Hollywood's Amoral Agenda
Image from a Jewish Action articleI found the exchange between Orthodox parents of gay children and Hollywood screenwriter Robert J. Avrech sad. It was in the letters section of Jewish Action...
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America’s First Female President?
Hillary Rodham ClintonWill Hillary Clinton be the next President of the United States? I think there is a very good chance of that. But it is not a certainty by a long shot. To no one’s surprise she...
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The Emes Ve-Emunah Segulah Fund
The Segulah Pushka - Not needed here!As someone that cares deeply about the welfare of Klal Yisroel and believes that one has to be Chas Al Mamon Yisroel (care about the money of my people) I have...
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Rising from Divorce
---------------------------------paid advertisement------------------------------OHEL’S New Groundbreaking Rising from Divorce Video Is a Community-Wide Call to Action Dr Hindie Klein, OHEL Director of...
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Time to Remove the Evil from our Midst
Screenshot of the YWN videoComment 1: How would anyone feel if one of their’s became a turncoat and joined the other side? During a time of war or shmad, when the enemies of the Torah are trying to...
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An Unexpected Development
UTJ Keneset member Moshe GafniIt appears that the last Kenesset in Israel may have actually changed the Charedi world for the better more permanently than was once imagined.It was widely held among...
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Rav Aharon Lichtenstein, ZTL – a Torah U’Mada Giant
R' Lichtenstein in 2014 meeting with R' Rabinoiwitz, the Kotel Rav (VIN)I never met him. But for me he was a giant. As he was for myriad other Jews in Orthodoxy and beyond. He had no peers. I Am...
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Not a Tzadik
Rav Aharon Lichtenstein, (Arutz Sheva)Once again I am thoroughly disgusted by the way a man that was clearly a Gadol in Torah by any standard has been treated in a right wing newspaper. That Rav Aharon...
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When Worlds Collide
There is much in the news these days about how some of the more extreme segments of the Charedi world deal with the relationship between men and women. Relationships between men and women is a subject...
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The New York Minute
A real 'selfie': The Picture of Dorian GrayOne may ask, ‘What is a New York minute?’ Isn’t a minute a measure of time that is universal in all lands among all people and cultures? A minute is 60...
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Two Videos
Lucy Aharish - A Muslim proud to be an Israeli citizenAs an Orthodox Jew, I am extremely proud of my Judaism. When properly observed, it is not only rewarding in the world to come, it is rewarded in...
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