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The Fallacy of Priesthood Celibacy
Cardinal Donald William Wuerl fomer Archbishop of PittsburghBreathtaking! I do not use that world lightly. I have used it before (probably more than once) and I do not want to overuse it since that...
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What Does Being a Religious Jew Mean?
Most readers know that I do not publish posts from anonymous contributors. I do however occasionally allow it if I know the writer’s identity and I think it is worthy of publication. That is the case...
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Justice, Justice You Shall Pursue
Woman who says her son was abused by a priest reacts at the press conferenceThe recent revelation about the massive sex abuse by over 300 Catholic Priests in Pennsylvania has given rise to some...
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Demanding Rights at the Expense of Your Children's Future
People have the right to educate their children as they see fit. That is the bottom line argument made by defenders of (the mostly Chasidic) Yeshivos in New York that offer little - if any - secular...
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Do Europeans Really Care about Us?
British Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn (Jerusalem Post)I cannot recall a time where the leader of a major political party in the UK, one of America’s closest allies, was such an antisemite. But that...
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Ask the Rabbanit
Some of the women that will be answering questions on the website (VIN)I honestly don’t know what to make of it. I have mixed feelings. The Jerusalem Post published an article (republished at VIN)...
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Implications of Michael Cohen's Guilty Plea
Michael Cohen (ABC News)It pains me to say this but it seems that the President is more in danger of impeachment than ever before. Not now. But after the election when it seems like the House of...
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Faith: Going Out and Coming In
Mayim Bialik - a now observant Jewish woman I’m a believer. This title to a great Monkees song composed by Neil Diamond is also a truth by which I live. I am a believer in God and that the Torah was...
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Crying Wolf
Rabbi YY RubinsteinWe are at war.Actually we aren’t. But sometimes it seems that way. The differences between the right and the left could not be more stark than in how each side views the President....
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A Moral Failing Based on Human Nature
Sigmund Freud whose theories of the sex drive revolutionized modern psychologyWomen don't exist for men's pleasure or abuse. This is literal objectification. It turns women into objects created for men...
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Mr. Lauder: With All Due Genuine Respect...
Malcolm Hoenlein (Left) and Ronald LauderI get it. I understand Hamodia’s umbrage at comments made by World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder. (Republished at Cross-Currents). Ronald Lauder is...
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Can a Four Year Old Child be Racist?
Nissim Black meets with R' Kanievsky (Life in Israel)There is a Facebook Page created by Rabbi Yosef Bechhofer dedicated to fighting racism. It’s called Orthodox Jews Against Discrimination and Racism....
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Can the Catholic Church Survive?
What did the Pope know and when did he know it? (NPR)I hate that it is a Jewish Attorney General that has exposed this. That will surely bring the antisemites out of the woodwork. But what is happening...
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Torah True Criminals
I already know what their defenders will say. ‘Innocent until proven guilty.’ ‘The raid was antisemitic.’ ‘So was their arrest.’ ‘These are holy people who religiosity should be emulated.’ ‘They are so...
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Of Jewish Atheists and Non Believers
(Image copied for Jewish Press website)Forty Two percent. That is the percentage of Jews in America that do not consider Judaism a valid system of belief. 17% of those believe in God and little else....
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I Dissent, Too.
Mishpacha columnist, Eytan KobreI have said many times that I try to be objective about everything that I comment upon. That includes the current President. This has led me to separate what he has done...
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Lieberman’s Eulogy for McCain - Kiddush HaShem or Chilul HaShem?
Joe Lieberman eulogizing Senator John McCain I have been an admirer of the former US senator from Connecticut, Joseph I. Lieberman. Ever since I first heard him speak at one of the early Chicago...
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A Conversion Puzzle
Nasreen Kadari (R) with Rabbi Dudu Dery and his wife at the Western Wall (VIN)Ahavas Hager. The Torah is very clear on the subject. There is to be no difference between converts to Judaism - and those...
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The Chicago Assifa
Last night the Orthodox Jewish community of Chicago came together at one gigantic gathering. There were nearly 3000 men women and teenagers there for one purpose. To address one of the greatest...
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A Painful Yet Necessary Condemnation
US Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman (Jerusalem Post)It is difficult to condemn a President - many of whose policies I believe have done so much for this country. And whose Middle East policies are...
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