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Rabbi Marc Schneier Headed For His Fourth Divorce

He’s got a few more divorces before he catches up with Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. Rabbi Schneier has told his West Hampton congregation that he has bipolar disorder and is taking a Sabbatical. June 27, 2010, the New York Post reports: Respected … Continue reading

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Rabbi Emanuel Rackman Dead

I got an email from a shul saying: "The funeral will be in [Israel]." Emanuel Rackman was one of the great minds of Modern Orthodoxy, a far greater intellect than Shalom Auslander‘s uncle Norman Lamm who beat him out for … Continue reading

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The Tape & The Talmud

From the New York Times: Four days before his first North American Boxing Federation title defense, Yuri Foreman sat in the basement of a Brooklyn brownstone studying Shulchan Aruch, the code of Jewish law. By early afternoon, he would be … Continue reading

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