Category Archives: Orthodoxy

Are You Really Sorry?

Baltimore Jewish Times editor Phil Jacobs writes: A rabbi friend called me the other day to wish me a Happy New Year. He then told me that he thought that I was being too critical of the Orthodox rabbis. “They … Continue reading

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Is My Blog Certified Kosher By The Orthodox Rabbis Of Los Angeles?

I heard Orthodox rabbi Yitz Greenberg say that while Israel should be more moral than other nations, if it insisted on being 100% more moral, it would be dead. It should instead strive for something achievable and survivable, such as … Continue reading

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Where’s The Love For Emmanuel Rackman and Eliezer Berkovitz?

Professor Marc B. Shapiro blogs: David Singer recently wrote an interesting article on Rabbi Emanuel Rackman.[3] With the recent passing of Rabbi Moses Mescheloff,[4] Rackman, born in 1910, might be the oldest living musmach of RIETS. If this is so, … Continue reading

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The Rabbi & The Documentary Hypothesis

From the Search For Emes: A guest at my house told me that a well known professor at a well known institution (sorry, can’t say who) told him that he asked a well known chareidi abbi (sorry can’t say who) … Continue reading

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Toronto’s Orthodox Jews Leaving For New Jersey

John Lorinc writes: In a spare living room furnished with a bookshelf of Hebrew texts and special silverware for religious occasions, Rabbi Jacob Hirschman, 71, tallied up the locations of his grown children. The two youngest, he says, still live … Continue reading

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