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How Do Survivors of Sex Abuse See This?
Samantha Geimer - Sexually abused as a minor It is pretty clear that any adult that has sex with a 13 year old, is guilty of sexual abuse. I don’t think there is anyone alive that would dispute that....
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A Rally to Condemn
Satmar anti Israel Rally yesterday at Barclay'sWhenever I criticize Satmar, I am immediately pointed to their Bikur Choilm Society. This Chesed group is renowned for serving the sick among Israel....
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Once a Zealot...
I remember Norman and Bernie Eisenstein. These identical twin brothers were students at HTC back when I was a student there in the late 60s and early 70s. One of the things that stood out about these...
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The Truth of Torah - The Truth of Science
Professor Gerald Schroeder - Author of Genesis and the Big BangOne of the greatest teachers I ever had was Dr. Solar. (I wish I could remember his first name). He was my zoology professor at Roosevelt...
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Two Perspectives on Wonder Woman
Gal Gadot as Wonder WomanI am not going to see the movie. Not for the reasons given by Alexandra Fleksher in her Cross Currents article. But because I am simply not a fan of Wonder Woman. I could...
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Is Judaism Without Labels Possible?
Ron Yitzchok Eisenman: Charedi or not Charedi?Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman distributes a weekly ‘Short Vort’ to his congregants and anyone else interested in what he has to say on any given event or...
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Shame?
Last Thursday I wrote a post describing the reaction of 2 woman - Alexandra Fleksher and Shoshana Keats-Jaskoll - to the movie Wonder Woman. Both women have Modern Orthodox backgrounds. Both seem to...
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The Prototype School
R' Nosson Tzvi Finkel (center) in an 8th grade class pictureLast night I had the privilege of attending the Arie Crown Hebrew Day School 70th anniversary banquet.Now I’ve been around the block a few...
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Orthodoxy and Intermarriage
Rethinking intermarriage?I understand his concern. Non Orthodox American Jewry is shrinking at a very rapid rate. I don’t think this is arguable – as a 2013 Pew Research survey sadly demonstrated. But...
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The Kotel and Compromise
The Kotel (Israel Hayom)This may surprise or even shock some people. But for me, the Kotel has never inspired me. ((I may have mentioned this before.) Now it’s true that this wall is the outer...
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An Inconvenient Truth
Orthodox students - the future of American Jewry (Associated Talmud Torahs)I cry for our people. Never in my lifetime would I have ever believed that the Jewish people would be undergoing another...
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Reaping What They Sow
Young Charedi extremist in action (Jerusalem Post - 2009)In the continuing saga of Jews that adhere to extreme forms of Judaism that have been increasingly making life miserable for everyone else, we...
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The Fallacy of Hiding Dirty Laundry
One of the topics frequently addressed here is the unfortunate circumstance of Chilul HaShem. This is an explicit command by God to the Jewish people: “And you shall not desecrate My Holy name; and I...
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Tradition, Sephardim, and the Kotel
Women of the Wall leader, Anat Hoffman One of the things I love about the Sephardi community is their Achdus. There is no such thing as a denomination in their world. Doesn’t exist. There is just one...
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The Idiot Chasid
Charedi women - at greater risk of death from breast cancerChasid Shoteh (idiot Chasid) is a term used by the Gemarah to describe an act of piety that in reality is counter to Halacha. Chasid, as used...
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The Fraud Epidemic
They sure look Frum! It’s worse than I could have ever imagined. I honestly don’t know how to react. I am dumbfounded. It appears that religious Jews that defraud government assistance programs...
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Compromise Should Not Come at the Expense of Truth
Everybody’s got an opinion. Yours truly included. I will get to mine in a moment. In a surprising reversal of a compromise agreement reached between the Israeli Keneset and heterodox rabbis, Israeli...
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Is Antisemitism to Blame?
Image from YWNHow sad it is when a Charedi internet news media outlet turns a humongous Chilul HaShem into a case of antisemitism. This is exactly what YWN (Yeshiva World News) has done in an oped...
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What Needs to Change
How many more times must we witness a scene like this? (source of image)The system is unsustainable. This is not the first time I’ve made this statement. Unfortunately it probably won’t be the last....
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Baruch Dayan HaEmes. There will be no new post today due to the sudden passing of my mother in law, Mrs. Cyrla Sauerhaft at age 100.
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