Category Archives: Rabbis

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

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How Rabbis Waste Time

Rabbi Daniel Pressman of Saratoga, CA, tells Slate: "People always e-mail me stuff like, ‘Oh, Rabbi, you should see this article,’ or, ‘Click on this YouTube link, there’s a funny Passover video.’ The job itself provides opportunities for wasting time. … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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