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Category Archives: Orthodoxy
What Percentage Of Orthodox Jews Take Their Cases To Secular Courts Rather Than Religious Courts?
A Jew is supposed to resolve his issues within the community and not look to the goyim and their legal system for redress. I say, can’t we all get along? If you’ve got a problem with somebody, don’t sue him … Continue reading
Robin Garbose
From The Jewish Week: Los Angeles — The tops of moonlit palm trees hovered above hundreds of Orthodox girls and women who drove through the enormous gates of Paramount Studio’s lot to The Sherry Lansing Theater on a recent Saturday … Continue reading
Non-Male Non-Orthodox Non-Rabbis
Rabbi Gil Student writes: There was an article in The Jerusalem Post a few weeks ago announcing that the Hartman Institute has decided to start ordaining women as Orthodox rabbis (link). I did not comment on it initially because it … Continue reading
No Gay Partners At Yeshiva Of Flatbush Reunions
Tamar Fox writes: Last week both the Forward and the Jewish Week reported on a scandal at Yeshiva of Flatbush, a prestigious Modern Orthodox school. In December the school hosted a ten-year reunion for the class of 1997, but openly … Continue reading
Rav Hershel Schachter Accused Of Being A Feminist!
From a new website that is angry about the way some men are treated in a Jewish religious divorce (get): Recently an outrage was committed where a respected TALMID CHACHAM was viciously and publicly insulted and defamed. As reported in … Continue reading
Rock and Roll Davening
My Shabbos go much better with musical instruments in shul but my uptight synagogue won’t go along with this. Dennis Prager says that just because the Romans destroyed our temple 2,000 years ago that shouldn’t mean we can’t groove on … Continue reading
Rabbi Baruch Lanner
Shmarya Rosenberg blogs: Rabbi Baruch Lanner is due to be paroled this week. Yochanan Lavie, a frequent FailedMessiah.com commenter, tells the story of his teenage encounters with rabbinic child abuser Rabbi Baruch Lanner. These encounters include Lanner kneeing boys in … Continue reading
The Historical Study Of Jewish Law
Rabbi Gil Student writes: The study of the history of halakhah is fraught with methodological and religious dangers. Good study requires thorough understanding of the breadth of rabbinic writings throughout history, as well as an appreciation for the rabbinic mindset. … Continue reading
It’s About Standards
Rabbi Yaakov Menken writes: I was as surprised as anyone to see “Gentile Lubavitcher refused conversion” in the Jerusalem Post. While it may be true that the belief that a deceased individual is the Messiah is foreign to normative Judaism, … Continue reading
Too Much Information
Rabbi Yaakov Menken’s Cross-Currents.com is a gorgeous blog. I’m relaxing with it Sunday evening after a day in which I had the TV on for eight hours so I could watch football with the sound off while simultaneously listening to … Continue reading