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The Tragic Legacy of Rabbi Meir Kahane
Rabbi Benny Lau (Jerusalem Post)There are a lot of liberal Orthodox Jews who love to point to Rabbi Benny Lau as the prototype of the rabbinic leader of the future. He is touted as the personification...
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A Bridge Too Far
Actress Angie Dickinson in her prime (PBS)A recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Educationreported that nearly half of the female undergraduates at Duke University were sexually assaulted while...
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The President, Kim Jong Un, and Michael Cohen
Michael Cohen testifying in congress (NPR)It’s really difficult to divert my attention from what is going on in both Washington and Viet Nam. Although these issues do not directly affect the Jewish...
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What if…?
The President of the United StatesWhat if a candidate for President had conservative and religious values that are similar to ours? What if they supported family values and led lives that exemplified...
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Boy For Sale
Yeshiva Beis HaMedrash (Matzav)I know that the following statement will get me I trouble with the religious right. But I will make it anyway. Because it’s the truth. Here it is:The Charedi approach to...
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The Conspiracy Theorists Among Us
Street scene in Williamsburg (COL) Once again we have the specter of Jews suffering. In this case, Orthodox Jews. Not all Orthodox Jews. But Jews living in the most isolated of communities. The issue...
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Corbyn, Farrakhan, and Omar
Representative Ilhan Omar (JTA)I stand second to no one in my loyalty to this great country of ours. In case you’re wondering which country I mean, it should be obvious. I live in America and benefit...
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Working for a Living
The recent issue of Mishpacha Magazine was dedicated to issues confronting the Charedi in the workplace. (Although the term they used was ‘Ben Torah’. I find that somewhat insulting. Is it only a...
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Justice in the Face of Survivor Realities
Michael Jackson 'grooming' a young victimUnless someone is directly involved in a trauma either as a victim, witness, close relative, or close friend - there is nothing like a film or TV drama...
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An Emes Ve-Emunah Mussar Shmooze
Image from the OU websiteI do not understand. How can any Jew that was raised to be observant not feel about a Baal Teshuva the way I do? Which is the way the Gemarah tells us to feel. To paraphrase......
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Good Intentions Gone Bad
Scene at the Kotel this Morning (Jewish Press)It is often the case that the best of intentions can easily pave the road to hell. And that is what I saw in the video below. On many levels.Let us assume...
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Like it or Not - Four More Years are Coming in 2020
President Trump addressing CPAC last weekI am going to go out on a limb and predict the unthinkable. Again. I predict that President Trump will win re-election in 2020. Barring death, physical or...
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Protecting Sex Abusers
Malka Leifer (Sunday Morning Herald)I have been reluctant to talk about the Malka Leifer case. Not because it isn’t serious. It certainly is. But because it is one of yet another in what seems like an...
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Muslims, Jews, and Patriotism
Judge Jeanine Pirro (Rolling Stone)I have no clue who Judge Jeanine Pirro is except that she is a conservative political commentator for Fox News. But she was way off base in attacking Ilhan Omar.That...
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Jexodus
"Fox & Friends" discuss "Jexodus," (Washington Post)I know that there are a lot of Orthodox Jews that define themselves as liberal. Which is usually followed by Democrat. They are liberal Democrats...
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When Free Speech Fails Us
'Rabbi" Yosef Mizrachi (Jewish News)I am a firm believer in free speech. But even if I wasn’t, it wouldn’t matter in this country because it is the law of the land backed by the constitution. So that...
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A Massacre in New Zealand
Scene of the terrorist attack in NewZealand (Daily Beast)Today I stand in solidarity with Muslims all over the world. I cannot imagine the level of grief felt by the families of the 49 Muslims brutally...
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What is Antisemitism?
Rav Elchonon Wasserman (Wikipedia)There is no question that most American Jews that are Orthodox support the President. Although I believe that it is more prevalent among the right than the left, I...
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Impossible Choices
Former Vice President Joe BidenThe middle is disappearing. The centrist Democratic party of Bill Clinton is no more. Now it’s all about how far left one can push it. That became painfully evident to me...
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The Great Blue and White Hope
Benny Gantz - the Great Blue and White Hope?Yes, I am still a Netanyahu fan. Although I do have some reservations about some of the things he has said and done, I believe he has helped his country a...
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