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Category Archives: Orthodoxy
Los Angeles Jewish News
* The latest issue of Jewish Community Foundation magazine profiles Aron Abecassis, real estate magnet and Etz Jacob philanthropist. * Beth Jacob reacquired the lot at the corner of Doheny and Olympic that was lost during the financial crisis of … Continue reading
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YULA Moving Left
It got rid of AGUDAH rabbis Becker and Landesman and hiring in the Modern Orthodox Zionist Mizrachi mold. More about YULA. How many children go to Rabbi Shalom Tendler‘s new school Mesivta Birkas Yitzchok? Rabbi Steven Weil is sending a … Continue reading
Shalom Auslander’s Mother Is Yeshiva University Chancellor Norman Lamm’s Sister
Shalom Auslander (website, my interview) writes in his forthcoming memoir Foreskin’s Lament: My mother’s brother was a famous rabbi. His name was Uncle Nathan [Norman Lamm, former president of Yeshiva University]. Her other brother was also a famous rabbi. His … Continue reading
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Modern Orthodoxy’s ‘Cultic’ Influence
From The Jewish Week: Rabbi Marc Angel of Manhattan is going out with a bang. As he prepares to retire from the pulpit this fall, the prominent Modern Orthodox rabbi and former president of the Rabbinical Council of America, has … Continue reading
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Back Story Behind The L.A. Eruv
Here’s the inside story that the Jewish Journal did not tell you. Initially Rabbi Bess (the leading authority on Jewish law in Los Angeles) was anti-eruv and rabbis in the Fairfax area did not want to get on his bad … Continue reading
Posted in Los Angeles, Orthodoxy, R. David Rue, R. Meyer May
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