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America Needs You, Harry Truman
President Harry Truman (George Washington University) We need to have the clarity of one of the biggest mass murderers in American history, President Harry Truman. Truman, a Democrat, is a man revered...
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God Wrapped in a Body?!
The Rebbe declares himself to be a Navi (RYGB)Many years have passed since I last dealt with the issues I have with Lubavitch/Chabad. There are 2 reasons for that.One reason is that I believed that I...
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Is This Really Daas Torah?
Admitted (and convicted) sex offender Eliezer Berland (Ynet)Unbelievable. That is about the only word that fits. Yeshiva World News reports about a Kol Koreh – a decree written and signed by numerous...
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Freedom to Follow Our Beliefs
Attorney Avi Schick, Partner - Troutman SandersIn last night’s Democratic candidate debate, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg spoke about his party’s reticence to speak in religious terms. His...
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The Future of Women as Rabbis in Orthodoxy
Rabba Rachel Khol Finegold (JWA)In some ways I feel sorry for Rabba Rachel Kohl Finegold. Not that she wants or needs my sympathy. She might even object to it as paternalistic or condescending. It...
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Reevaluating a Once Vital Yeshiva Paradigm
By Rabbi Dovid Fink2 very wise Torah giants: R' Moshe Feinstein and R' Yitzchok Hutner I was sent the following essay last week by a friend (Paul Lopin). It was written by his nephew, Rabbi Dovid Fink....
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The President's Foreign Policy Gambit
Iranian President, Hassan RouhaniNo. This is not an early endorsement of the President’s re-election. And it should not be taken as such by anyone – whether by his supporters or detractors. But there...
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An Unusual Capital 4th
The Stealth BomberYet another slow news day in the Jewish world. So I will continue with the theme I touched upon yesterday: Media bias against the President. Sometimes the bias is so obvious, all...
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Sickening Reactions to Real Grievances
A car set on fire by protesters in Tel Aviv on July 2nd (Jewish Press)There is not a doubt in my mind that racial bias is alive and well in our time. Even among those of us that are committed to the...
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The Growing Crisis of Faith
Space Nebula (Jewish Action)The latest edition of the OU’s Jewish Action Magazine discusses the difficult subject of Emunah (belief or faith). This is a subject that has been with us from the very...
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Everything is Assur - A Distorted View of Reality
Rebbitzen Feige Twerski (Cong Beth Jehuda)Yes, I devoured books. I devoured the classics. In those days, the world hadn’t moved to the right like it has today. Today everything is assur. In Bais Yaakov...
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Time for Europe to Abandon Appeasement
Israeli cabinet meeting (Jerusalem Online)It seems Iran has decided to renew its determination to build a nuclear weapon. They have announced that they have surpassed the threshold of uranium...
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Frum Drug Addicts
Image for illustrative purposes (Matzav)Drug addicts. They are the scum of the earth. Only a culture that glorifies hedonistic behavior can fall prey to this malady.Thankfully this is not happening...
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The Holocaust, Its Deniers, and Judaism
General Eisenhower touring a just liberated campI personally find it almost more laughable than offensive (although it certainly is offensive) when a supposedly educated individual in any way denies...
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The Kiddush HaShem in the Catskills as a Prototype
click to enlargeLet me add my own accolades to a group of young Orthodox Jewish campers in the Catskills. Matzav published a Facebook post by Ann-Marie Barton that clearly indicates these campers have...
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The Truth About Trump and Illegal Aliens
Illegal immigrants being housed in cages (screenshot -PBS)I am so tired of the extreme media bias. And yes. It is extreme. Never before has it come into such stark focus as it has under the Trump...
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Jew Versus Jew
Education Minister Rafi :Peretz (TOI)It almost seems like a war. Not between Jews and antisemites. But between Jews adhering to the tenets Orthodoxy and Jews belonging to the more liberal streams. The...
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The Squad
The ‘Squad’ L-R: Omar, Pressley, Tlaib and Cortez (The Hill)There has been a lot of justifiable criticism of President Trump’s recent tweet about the ‘Squad’. The Squad is the name of a group of four...
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Why Modern Orthodoxy is Dying
Illustration from LehrhuasWhat’s that you say? Modern Orthodoxy is Dying? How can you say that about a segment of Orthodoxy to which you belong and whose values you espouse?That might be the question...
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A Word to My Readers
When there is bias, the truth is hard to findIt is so predicable. I can almost predict verbatim how both the right and the left will respond to my political posts. They are all turning into caricatures...
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