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Category Archives: Orthodoxy
What Choices Do You Have When Your Enemy Is Modern Culture?
Post: My enemy is modern (liberal Western) culture. It is pure evil, far worse than Communism or Nazism or any of the other recent evils in history. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Who are the enemies of … Continue reading
Is Jewish Support For Civil Rights Based On Jewish Texts?
From Edward S. Shapiro’s (he is the father of academic superstar Marc B. Shapiro) 2005 collection of essays — We Are Many: Reflections On American Jewish History And Identity: …If support for blacks is an ineluctable result of Jewish values, … Continue reading
Orthodox Jewish Uber Driver Buys A Hat
A Yid says on FB: “My new ‘cabbie’ hat. Because I seem to get lower ratings with Uber when my yarmulke is visible. I now have a 5.0 consistently. Others have told me they’ve had the same experience.” Rabbi: I’d … Continue reading
Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff: ‘Feminism is the biggest problem we have’
This is an interesting class from 2006. The rabbi says he permitted a woman, quietly, to put on tefillin. If you have a young woman leading the prayers, “if your eyes aren’t on her, you’re not a man, and if … Continue reading
Her Task Is To Instill Sexual Desire In Orthodox Wives
I wish her much mazal! From the New York Times: The suggestions ranged from the seemingly modest to the more direct, from reading romance novels to kissing with the lights on to wearing a lacy nightgown to his touching her … Continue reading
Evolution & Orthodox Judaism
A secular friend of mine stayed with some Orthodox Jews for a couple of days and then got in touch with me: “Ok so I’m having this crisis. I am staying with these religious people and I really like them … Continue reading
When American Jews Don’t Consider Themselves Part Of America
I’m reading a 2007 essay by Marc B. Shapiro: The Torah im Derekh Erez philosophy [Torah with the way of the land], which was shared by virtually all German Orthodox Jews in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, began … Continue reading
Should Wearing Religious Head-Coverings To Work Be A Right?
I’ve been wearing a religious head-covering to work for about 20 years. Only on one occasion was I asked to take it off — when I was working as an extra on a TV show, playing an ambulance assistant, I … Continue reading
Rabbi Antony Chanan Gordon’s Rav Pled Guilty To Fraud In September
According to Aish.com: “Rabbi Chanan (Antony) Gordon, is a former student of Rav Noach Weinberg, Z’tl and Aish Hatorah, Jerusalem. A Fulbright Scholar and graduate of the Harvard Law School, Chanan has been very involved in outreach since leaving Aish … Continue reading
My Spiritual Leader
I was sitting in an Orthodox shul one morning and the rabbi got up and remarked that we had chosen him as our spiritual leader. I was shocked. I did not go to the shul because of the rabbi and … Continue reading