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Category Archives: Orthodoxy
Orthodox Jews For Trump
REPORT: Donald Trump is not only the Republican frontrunner by a large margin, but his dominance and unscripted talk has also earned him some fans in the Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn. A recent Siena poll showed that Jewish voters … Continue reading
Jewish Support For The Iran Deal
Pini Herman writes on FB: You may not see most of these people at the LA Jewish Federation….Could it be that they know its not the “big tent” it claims to be. The LA Federation machers even sidestepped it’s own … Continue reading
Torah Scholars Tend To Be Frail
One does not usually associate ruddy health with the most religious Jews. Adam Kirsch writes: Yet Talmud scholars, the chapter also teaches, did not often get a chance to indulge in such dainties. Whether because they were too poor, too … Continue reading
Who’s better at kvetching? Blacks or Jews or women? The black orthodox Jewess of course!
I wonder who will be the lucky man to catch this prize? Is it egregious cultural appropriation when blacks play classical music composed by whites, perform in plays written by whites, play games invented by whites? Elisheva Ester Rishon writes: … Continue reading
The Noble Lie
Marc B. Shapiro blogs: 1. Amichai Markowitz called my attention to a talmudic text that I overlooked. Nedarim 23b states: “The Tanna has intentionally obscured the law, in order that vows should not be lightly treated.” This relates to the … Continue reading
Jewish Press Interviews Marc Shapiro
LINK: Your book is filled with examples of historical revisionism and omission. Let’s go through a number of them. First: Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach’s position on lashon hara between a husband and wife. He thought if someone is having a … Continue reading
Orthodox Jews Know Who They Are
The more traditional the Jew, the less he has angst about his identity — he’s a Yid first, second and third. The more modern the Jew, the more assimilated and confused. That’s why the Orthodox increasingly dominate Jewish life. No … Continue reading
The Clash Between Orthodox Judaism’s Theory & Practice
Comments on Changing the Immutable: How Orthodox Judaism Rewrites its History by Marc B. Shapiro (Oxford – Portland, OR: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2015). Bar Ilan professor Aryeh A. Frimer writes: But what I found particularly troubling with … Continue reading
Heshy Fried: Tznius and big boobs don’t mix
Sara Kohn: My taharat mishpacha teacher in high school used to talk about her minimizers and their effectiveness ad nauseum. Chaya Miriam Fried: Enter the “frummie slouch” Kalman Goldstein: Is that in Mislei or Pirke Avos?
What Is The Shidduch Crisis?
Yermie Kurkus writes on FB: This Shidduch Crisis is more of a Social Crisis found amongst the Orthodox circles. It is men and women who do not know what they want. In the non-religious and non-Jewish world – dating is … Continue reading