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Jewish News

* Which married Orthodox LA pulpit rabbi has his ladies dress up as Yavneh school children? * The plaything of rabbis? The handover of Shannon Orand from Rabbi Tovia Singer To Rabbi Leib Tropper? * Hitler finds out Young Israel … Continue reading

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Rabbi Riskin & Rabbi Jesus

Here are some interesting letters to and from Rabbi Shlomo Riskin. In the first letter, dated March 26, 1991, Rabbi Riskin tries to hire Rabbi Baruch Lanner to recruit for him. Lanner would be great for bringing people through the … Continue reading

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Rescuing Chained Women

I remember discussing agunot eleven years ago at Aish HaTorah with Rabbi Aryeh Markman (in 2007 he described me as a "Torah weirdo" in the Jewish Journal) and he said it was just an excuse for people to bash Orthodox … Continue reading

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Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Ripped As A ‘Colonialist Rabbi’

Philip Weiss blogs: The Washington Post reports on John McCain talking with Jewish American "leaders," including Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, who asks McCain "why he won’t ‘hammer’ Obama hard for [the Rev. Wright] association. Riskin, from Brooklyn, is a leading rabbi … Continue reading

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John McCain Does A Call Sunday With Jewish Leaders

From the Washington Post: WESTERVILLE, Ohio — John McCain ducked a direct invitation this morning to criticize Barack Obama over Obama’s relationship with his one-time pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. "The issue of Pastor Wright has been pretty well … Continue reading

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