Category Archives: Orthodoxy

Haredim Sing ‘YMCA’ Rally For HD TV

Posted on December 8, 2007 by Luke Ford

"YES cable Israel takes advantage of the Haredi tendency to protest and uses it in an advertisement for HDTV."

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Rabbi Saul Berman Comes To Town

Posted on December 2, 2007 by Luke Ford

I’ve heard mixed reviews about his Sabbath talks. I’m told: Like many speakers he had more time to speak than material. He was a bit ideological Friday night on his point that chumras are a socio-cultural/historical phenomenon of post-Holocaust Judaism. … Continue reading →

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Some Orthodox Jews Getting Religious Marriages But Not Civil Ones

Posted on November 18, 2007 by Luke Ford

I got a call Saturday night from an Orthodox couple on the East coast. The man had been married before. He was paying a lot of alimony to his ex-wife. She remarried in an Orthodox ceremony but they skipped the … Continue reading →

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Keep Onions Out Of Shul

Posted on November 17, 2007 by Luke Ford

I was sitting in shul this morning, alternately davening and reading the sacred words of Chaim Potok, when a bloke sits down to me, puts on his tallit and then, during the reading of the Torah, unfurls a copy of … Continue reading →

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Anorexia And The Orthodox Seminary Girl

Posted on November 16, 2007 by Luke Ford

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach writes: Last week my eldest daughter called me from Israel, where she is studying for a year in seminary, crying and terribly distraught. A girl she was friendly with from another seminary had died of anorexia. She … Continue reading →

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