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Category Archives: Rabbis
A Portrait Of A Rabbi Predator
Think Rabbi Yaakov Menken aka Kenny the Shark. That type. We’ve got one or two rabbis like this in Pico/Robertson. They’re in positions of power. I wouldn’t want to rock the boat. I’m not the type who likes to name … Continue reading
Rabbinic Corruption
Gadi Pickholz from the Israel Fathers Rights Advocacy Council emails: "Luke: Just over 50% of all cases before Israel’s rabbinic courts are appealed, and just over 65% of those appeals are found valid. Yet in the US, both the RCC … Continue reading
Where Are The Charedim On Newsweek’s Most Influential Rabbis List?
All the orthodox rabbis are Modern Orthodox. Tarfon writes on Jewcy: There seems to be a substantial LA-centric bias to the "influential" list. In what sense is R’ Hier influential? Does anyone outside of LA know or care about the … Continue reading
Newsweek Ranks America’s Top 25 Pulpit Rabbis
From Newsweek.com: Based on the overwhelming response to the "influentials" list last year, Lynton, Ginsberg and Sanderson put together a list of the best pulpit rabbis in the country. The most powerful people, it turns out, are not always the … Continue reading
Four Torah Sages Died This Month
Shlomo Greenwald writes for The Jewish Press: The Orthodox Jewish world mourns the loss of four prominent figures who passed away in recent days, Rabbi Eli Teitelbaum, Mr. Bentzion Dunner, Rabbi Moshe Fuller, and Rabbi Yitzchok Chinn, each of whom … Continue reading
We Plan, God Laughs: 10 Steps To Finding Your Divine Path
From Sinai Temple Sherre Z. Hirsch (for eight years) has published a book. She’s such a babe. Here’s her speaker bio: Rabbi Sherre Z. Hirsch Spiritual Life Consultant CREDENTIALS Master’s degree in Rabbinics, Ordination, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York Seminary … Continue reading
When Is It OK For A Rabbi To Call A Lady A ‘Crack Whore’?
JewJew posts to the Jewish Journal forums: There is NO EXCUSE for calling women sluts, whores and crack whores for the exclusive reason if a rabbi finds them not to be Jewish women. I am so disgusted at his language … Continue reading
Pierced
So I get an email Sunday night about "rabbinic corruption and hypocrisy." Cool! I think. That’s groovy. The rabbis caught me lying and deceiving. Maybe I’ll catch them doing something wicked and then I won’t feel so bad about myself. … Continue reading
Amalek On Female Rabbis
Chaim posts: "Female rabbis gives most heterosexual men the creeps. To begin with, why is it that these transrabbis are NEVER, and I mean NEVER sexually desirable? What does that say about the mental calculus a woman does when she … Continue reading