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Category Archives: Orthodoxy
How Do You Keep Your Kids Sheltered?
Orthodox Jews send their children to Orthodox schools and to Orthodox activities and keep them sheltered. As a result, most of them are virgins when they marry — despite growing up in big cities — and they rarely turn into … Continue reading
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Rabbinic Views On Love Before & After Marriage
Marc B. Shapiro writes: There is an interesting responsum of R Yair Hayyim Bacharach, Havot Yair, no. 60, that deals with a man and woman who were in love and get married despite the strong opposition of the woman’s father. … Continue reading
ISIS, Rabbi Shlomo Einhorn, and Kiddush Hashem
Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein writes: Rabbi Shlomo Einhorn, the rav and head of school at Yavneh in Los Angeles, helped me figure out what to learn from ISIS, ימח שמם. Yesterday, I dropped by to witness and savor his latest creative … Continue reading
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Freedom In Orthodox Judaism
Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein writes: Jonathan Rosenblum and I discovered decades ago that we were kindred spirits. We rarely disagree. We did disagree twice about the recent[1] Klal Perspectives shabbaton in Baltimore, although he won’t find out about the second disagreement … Continue reading
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Yisro, Pablo Escobar, and A Coming Wave of New Converts
Rabbi Yitzhok Adlerstein writes: Colleagues in Dallas (otherwise known as the buckle of the Bible Belt) report a greater number of applicants who left full-blown involvement with other faiths because they came to reject their assumptions and underpinnings. While many … Continue reading
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