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Spiritual Highs Are Hard To Come By In Judaism

A lot of people want to know what I was feeling when I was converting to Judaism. On that last day as I stood naked in the mikveh and saying the blessings in Hebrew that would officially make me Jewish, … Continue reading

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Leftism – The Jews’ Golden Calf

Dennis Prager writes: How would most American Jews react to the following historical assessment by a noted Yiddish scholar, professor Gennady Estraikh of New York University? “It is hardly an overstatement to define Yiddish literature of the 1920s as the … Continue reading

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Los Angeles Has Predatory Rabbis Doing Orthodox Conversions To Judaism

Alarm bells should go off in your head if the rabbi in charge of your conversion to Orthodox Judaism asks you: * When do you menstruate (so he can get at you when you won’t contaminate him) * To meet … Continue reading

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The Haredi Obsession With Bugs

Jonah Lowenfeld writes in this week’s Jewish Journal: The presence of even one whole bug, dead or alive, can render an entire vegetable treif — unkosher. On this matter, Orthodox rabbis are unequivocal. “From a Torah perspective, eating a Big … Continue reading

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The High Price Of Kosher Lettuce

The Jewish Journal has been working on this story for more than a year: The presence of even one whole bug, dead or alive, can render an entire vegetable treif — unkosher. On this matter, Orthodox rabbis are unequivocal. “From … Continue reading

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