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Shiduchim - Failure Touted as Success
Last week, in the the Times of Israel Rabbi Chananya Weissman discussed Shiduchim (the process of getting married). This is a subject that is near and dear to him. As it should be to all of us. Rabbi...
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Trump - Heartening Some Jews, Rattling Others
Rabbi Abba Cohen at the recent National Day of Prayer Service (JTA)That’s what I’m talking about. Ron Kampeas demonstrates why I cannot base my views of the President solely on his character. I have...
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Yeshiva University and the Right
HaRav Reuven Brand, Rosh Kollel - YU Kollel Torah MitzionYeshiva University. Yeshiva Rabbenu Yitzchak Elchanan (REITS - or YU as it is commonly called) is often referred to as the flagship Yeshiva of...
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Pfleger and Farrakhan
Father Michael Pfleger and Louis Farrakhan (Sun-Times)Father Michael Phleger is a phony. I say this in spite of his image as a lifetime defender of black people. Phleger is a white Catholic priest...
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Cookie Cutter Judaism
Uniformity reigns supreme! (image from a Chabad wesbite)Uniformity. If there is any one thing that stands out about the Charedi world it is that. That is what struck me about a recent picture I saw...
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Greed... is Not Good!
Teva Pharmaceuticals factory in Jerusalem (Axios)I have of late been re-thinking my position about the state of health care in this country. As a conservative leaning staunch supporter of a free market...
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A House of Cards
Image for illustration purposes only (Rationalist Judaism)Unfortunately I am not surprised. Although I am still saddened by a situation Rabbi Natan Slifkin is calling ‘downright terrifying’!It involves...
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Abortions Should Be Safe, Legal, and Rare
Image from BreakpointNow that Alabama has passed legislation outlawing abortionsin all circumstances except to save the life of the mother, I thought it would be prudent to revisit the issue and...
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An Existential Threat
The Charedi classroom (Times of Israel)Dan Ben-David is a professor of Economics at Tel Aviv University and founder and president of the Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research. I have no idea...
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The Wisdom of Women
By Shoshanna JaskollI am once again pleased to host the words of Shoshanna Jaskoll. Although we have some differences of opinion on certain issues, we tend to agree on the most issues affecting the...
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Litzman Must Go!
Deputy Heath Minister Yaakov Litzman at a recent press conference (TOI)“Any appeal I receive from a person asking for help, I don’t ask, are they a sex offender or not a sex offender,”“Every request I...
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Jews, America and Poland
Polish Prime Minister,Mateusz Jakub Morawiecki (Jerusalem Post)There was some antisemitic vandalism in Chicago over the weekend. There was an attempted arson at Anshe Sholom, a synagogue in the...
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Tolerance - Not Normalization
Lori Lightfoot being sworn in - as wife and daughter look on (The Gazette)I never thought I would ever hear which day of Sefiras HaOmer it was during an inauguration ceremony of a Chicago mayor. But...
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"There Has to be Something!"
Don McGhan (New York Magazine)I don’t get it. I really don’t. I can’t understand why after 2 years of a deep probe by Special Counsel Robert Mueller that in an over 400 page report said it found...
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Measles, Chasidim, and Antisemtism
(Daily Voice)Measles is no joke. Neither is antisemitism. Unfortunately these two terrible things have collided over the last few months. The question is whether there really is antisemitism behind the...
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Denial is Our Enemy
Amudim founder and CEO, Rabbi Zvi GluckThey have been hurt. By members of our own community. Unfortunately sex abuse is as prevalent in Orthodox Jewish circles as it is anywhere else. I wish I could...
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Ignoring Collateral Damage
The Charedi world seems to be speaking with one celebratory voice on the issue. That was the underlying message in a Mishpacha Magazine column by Eytan Kobre.The decision back in April made by a New...
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Is This Still Happening?
A Charedi Soldier (From the website of David M. Weinberg)Someone sent me the video below (from 2017 featured on Yeshiva World News). No matter how many times I see something like this (and...
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This is Not Our Way
A Chochmat Nashim podcast (from their website)A few days ago, I hosted Shoshanna Jaskoll’s post describing what Chochmat Nashim, an organization she co-founded is all about. I said in the introduction...
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Ordaining an Openly Gay Jew
Daniel Atwood and Rabbi Daniel Landes (JTA)Marx once said “I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members.” (Not Karl. Julius Henry. Better known as Groucho.)This is kind...
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