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Not an 'Aha' Moment
Robert Mueller's press conference yesterdayThere is a lot of buzz in the media about how Special Counsel, Robert Mueller’s press conference yesterday impacts on the chances of impeaching the President....
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Choose Life
Living donor kidney transplant procedure (Mayo Clinic)V'Chai Bahem! Torah law is designed to live by. Not die by. That is an overriding law of the Torah. It means that whenever one is confronted with...
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Yom Yerushalayim and the Election
Today is Yom Yerushalayim. On this (Hebrew) date in 1967, the Israeli army fought and won a war against several Arab nations that joined forces in order to fulfill the promises of Egyptian President...
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Religious Tolerance in a Jewish State
R' Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz - The Chazon Ish (Wiki)Religious tolerance. That is the key to survival in a democracy. As a democracy, Israel must adhere to that principle. And it does. But what about...
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Who Will Speak for the Children?
Who will speak for me? (Forward)Once again, it appears that the New York State Education Department (NYSED) will be attempting to upgrade its educational requirements. And once again Agudah will be...
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Chicago’s Role Model for Achdus
Rabbi Yosef Cohen - a role model of Achdus (screenshot)I have no illusions about why there is so little Achdus in Orthodoxy. Hashkafic differences tend to divide rather than unite. Which is ridiculous...
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Trembling at the Word of God
Mirror, mirror on the wall: Who is the Frummest of them all?I confess. I am here to publicly declare myself to be Charedi. I’m sure that those to my left would not consider that news. But to many of...
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A Celebration of our Continuity
Tomorrow evening we begin the annual celebration of our acceptance of the Torah at Sinai. The Torah is more than a simple code of Jewish law. It is our moral and ethical guide. It is also what has kept...
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The Passing of a Gadol
R’ Nosson Kamenetsky, ZTL (Cross Currents)Political correctness is the order of the day in the secular world. But it is also the order of the day in the world or the religious right of Orthodox Jewry....
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Well Intended but Misguided
The Gay Pride in Jerusalem last week (Jewish Press)The Jewish people are a compassionate people. Chazal tells us that we inherited that trait genetically from our patriarchs and matriarchs who were all...
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Is Full Time Torah Study the Will of God?
Image from TabletThere is some encouraging news about the economic viability of Charedi families in Israel. News that does not involve more government stipends. News that actually means educating and...
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Why the Lubavitcher Rebbe Was Mistaken about TIDE
By Rabbi Yosef Gavriel BechhoferThe late Lubavitcher Rebbe, R' Menachem Mendel SchneersohnA short while ago, a Chabad website featured a letter (written in 1962) from the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, R'...
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An Angry Response
Cheder Lubavitch Hebrew Day School principal, Rabbi Yitzchok WolfI received the following comment to Rabbi Bechhofer’s post last Friday:How does TIDE fit in with Reb Moshes Tshuva. It really doesn't...
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The Ties That Bind
Screenshot of Agudah's 12th Daf Yomi Siyum at Metlife Stadium (Youtube)What unites us as observant Jews is far greater than what divides us. In that spirit I have to say I’m pleased. I have been...
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A Secular Jewish State is an Oxymoron
Yisroel Beiteinu leader, Avigdor Lieberman (JOL)Israel is not a theocracy. Much as I believe that a state that followed Jewish law would be a good thing for those of us that are observant I do not...
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Judaism and Misappropriating Holocaust Imagery
Congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC)As a child of the Holocaust, (defined as having parents who survived it) I am second to no one (other than survivors themselves) when it comes to...
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And Now, for Something Completely Different…
Is this the way to win a Nobel Prize? (Jerusalem Post)I suppose that as an observant Jew who places great value on the study of Gemarah, I should be flattered. And I kind of am.I came across a JTA...
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War is Hell! But…
Iran's Revolutionary Guard chief, General Hossein Salami (Times of Israel)I am the last one to advocate putting our troops in harm’s way. For me this means avoiding war at almost all costs. Wars should...
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Herman Wouk - A Great American; A Great Jew
Herman Wouk- circa 1955 (Wikipedia)Marjorie Mornignstar, The Caine Mutiny, Youngblood Hawke, Winds of War, War and Remembrance… What do theses title have in common? They were all major motion pictures...
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The Amoral Abyss of Political Correctness
King David High School (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)Sometimes I just want to scream. But I suppose this is what you get when social polices are based the politics of political correctness. Policies...
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