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When Policy Collides with Ethics and Morality
New National Security Adviser, John BoltonAs it applies to Israel it is almost impossible to understate the significance of John Bolton as President Trump’s as new National Security Adviser....
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A True Hero for The Jewish People
A true hero of the Jewish people, Rabbi Yakov Horowitz (Torah Cafe)This is why I have issues with survivor advocates. Instead of Rabbi Yakov Horowitz being one of their heroes… when his name comes up...
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The New Antisemitsm
US Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman (WJD)How right he is! From the World Jewish Daily:U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman told a global antisemitism conference in Jerusalem that the "new...
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A Common Sense Approach to Funding Education
3 members of a recent panel discussion on the tuition crises (Jewish Link)I read with interest an article lamenting the cost of educating our children Jewishly. Especially in Modern Orthodox circles...
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Two Legislators on the Wrong Side of an Issue
New York State Senator Simcha Felder of BrooklynYou would think that Judaism itself was under attack in this great country of ours. Hearkening back to the days of Czarist Russia whose government...
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The Fifth Son
Rabbi Ron Yitzchok EisenmanI have never met Ron Yitzchok Eisenman, the Rabbi of Congregation Ahavas Israel in Passaic, New Jersey. But I have read his words in periodicals like Mishpacha Magazine. I...
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Exodus
One might note that the Haggadah purposely omits the name of Moshe except only once in passing. Considering that Sipur Yitzias Mitzraim (telling the story of our Exodus from Egypt) is one of the...
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Blaming the Wrong People
Misguided Jews protesting violence at the Gaza border last Shabbos (JPost)‘Now is the time to stand together and create hope.’ These were the words of Jewish protesters in Tel Aviv on the first day of...
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Two Intermarriages Avoided
Conservative Rabbi Seymour Rosenbloom officiating at an intermarriage (JTA)What a revelation! I was both amused and appalled by the responses to Carey Purcell’s oped in the Washington Post. Carey, who...
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The Felder Provision
What kind of future will these children have?I have never met New York State Senator Simcha Felder. All I know about him is that he is an Orthodox Jew serving a constituency - a large part of which...
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Celebrating an Embarrassment
Limousine motorcade honoring 63 Peleg 'Bnei Torah' (YWN)It’s worse than I thought. The damage to Klal Yisroel wrought by Peleg’s (the Jerusalem Faction's) late leader, Rav Shmuel Auerbach is beyond...
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Why A Convicted Felon is Treated Like a Celebrity
Eliezer Berland (Arutz Sheva)I wish I could day I am surprised by the scene depicted in the video (below) in the Jerusalem Post of Rabbi Eliezer Berland visiting the Kotel. Unfortunately I’m not...
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EMTs that are Orthodox and Female
EMTs of Ezras Nashim (Ezras Nashim Website)If there is a better example of misogyny among some of my fellow Orthodox Jews I’d like see it. Frankly I don’t think there is.YWNposted a story that is...
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Gadol Worship
The Chazon Ish, Rav Yeshayahu Karelitz, ZTLA couple of days ago, I discussed a possible explanation of why a charismatic rabbi and convicted rapist is still treated like a celebrity by his followers...
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The President - As I See Things Now
President Trump’s personal attorney, Michael CohenThose who read this blog regularly know of my antipathy for the current President. I did not vote for him and still consider him an unprecedented...
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My Daughter's Grandfather
Zaidy Marcus and Dovid, a great grandson Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. In Israel every Jew with any sense of respect for the dignity of Holocaust survivors upon hearing the call of the siren -...
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A Really Bad Idea
Anti Israel extremists of Meah Shearim (Arutz Sheva)I appreciate the sentiment. In fact, I might have in a moment of anger supported it. But ultimately it is a really bad idea.I don’t know anything...
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A Step in the Right Direction - but Not Enough
I’m happy to see the Agudah on board. I received a communication from David Nyer* with a statement** from mainstream Orthodox institutions about the violence perpetrated by Charedi extremists in...
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A Satmar 'Victory' and Public Schools
Rabbi Aharon Teitlebaum - Satmar Rebbe of Kiryas JoelTwo wrongs don’t make a right. One might be tempted to use statistics about New York City’s public schools to bolster the argument made by the...
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A View of Satmar Education from an Insider
Frida Vizel does a good job describing the truth about Chasidic education. In her Tablet Magazine article of the same title, she tries to be objective about her former community. The former Satmar...
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