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Category Archives: Orthodoxy
About Half Of My Friends Are Orthodox Jews
Orthodoxy has made for the majority of my social life since I moved to Los Angeles in 1994. I compare notes with a friend who says: Yes I’d say that percentage too, although due to the vast amount of social … Continue reading
Opening Up Orthodox Judaism
Steve Lipman writes for The Jewish Week: In a small classroom across Broadway from Columbia University, Moshe is having a meltdown one recent afternoon. Moshe, in his late 20s, is reluctantly unburdening with his rabbi about his drinking problem. Depressed, … Continue reading
Rent A Hasid
Worldly men rent vagina. Godly men rent Hasidim. Oh, how it makes my Modern Orthodox heart sing when I can pray with the haredim. Just like it used to make my Reform heart dance when I could pray with black … Continue reading
Hardcore Jewish Chicks In Pico/Robertson
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Young Israel On The Rocks
From the YU Commentator: Since its inception in 1912, the Young Israel movement has attempted to steer the precarious balance that is American Modern Orthodoxy. But according to sources inside the Young Israel as well as outside observers, the National … Continue reading
After Annapolis Thoughts About The Role Of American Orthodox Jews
By Rabbi Michael J. Broyde and Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein: The Annapolis Peace Conference has come and gone, and negotiations are really just beginning, some in private and some in public. And while differences of opinion abound within the Orthodox world, … Continue reading
Haredim Sing ‘YMCA’ Rally For HD TV
"YES cable Israel takes advantage of the Haredi tendency to protest and uses it in an advertisement for HDTV."
Rabbi Saul Berman Comes To Town
I’ve heard mixed reviews about his Sabbath talks. I’m told: Like many speakers he had more time to speak than material. He was a bit ideological Friday night on his point that chumras are a socio-cultural/historical phenomenon of post-Holocaust Judaism. … Continue reading
Some Orthodox Jews Getting Religious Marriages But Not Civil Ones
I got a call Saturday night from an Orthodox couple on the East coast. The man had been married before. He was paying a lot of alimony to his ex-wife. She remarried in an Orthodox ceremony but they skipped the … Continue reading
Keep Onions Out Of Shul
I was sitting in shul this morning, alternately davening and reading the sacred words of Chaim Potok, when a bloke sits down to me, puts on his tallit and then, during the reading of the Torah, unfurls a copy of … Continue reading