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Category Archives: Orthodoxy
Dennis Prager Unmasked?
Yaron Reuven and Yosef Mizrachi are a couple of Sephardic rabbis with limited learning and IQ who make a ton of compelling and entertaining speeches. They have a gift for rabble rousing. They’re not particularly concerned with accuracy. They don’t … Continue reading
The Literary History of a Rabbinic Genre by Peter J. Haas
Haym Soloveitchik writes: I have read good books and I have read bad books, and now I have read a book by Peter J. Haas. It has been a singular experience, and I would like to share it with others. … Continue reading
Pets on Shabbat, Rabbi Morenu, and Epidemics
Orthodox Jews traditionally have not kept pets. Marc B. Shapiro blogs: * R. Moshe did not regard pets as muktzeh. It would thus be permissible to handle your own cat that lives in your home, but not to do so … Continue reading
POST-MOSAIC ADDITIONS TO THE TORAH?
Marc B. Shapiro blog: * One of the biggest theological changes in Orthodoxy in the last decades—perhaps the sources collected in Limits were significant in this regard—is the acknowledgment that asserting limited post-Mosaic additions to the Torah is not to … Continue reading
Living As an Orthodox Jew at the Highest Levels of Government || Dr Dov Zakheim
According to Wikipedia: Dov S. Zakheim (born December 18, 1948) is an American businessman, writer, politician, and former official of the United States government. In the Reagan administration, he held various Department of Defense positions. Dov S. Zakheim was born … Continue reading
Free Speech In Orthodox Judaism
Everything that gets you banned from social media, you can talk about in Orthodox Judaism. I’ve yet to find a topic that I couldn’t talk about with an Orthodox rabbi. I’ve been able to discuss productively Biblical criticism, Kevin MacDonald, … Continue reading
Orthodox Jews & Bob Grant
Marc B. Shapiro blogs: “I actually know of one gadol who used to listen to the Bob Grant show at home.” Comments: “A very reliable and exact friend of mine accompanied Meir Kahana to a live radio interview with Grant. … Continue reading
How LA’s Orthodox Jews averted the worst of the pandemic
From the Forward, May 4, 2020: According to Yossi Manela, director of Chevra Kadisha Mortuary, only three Orthodox Jews with Covid-19 on their death certificate — all men, average age 75 years old — had passed through his funeral home. … Continue reading
Forward: Defying the governor but heeding the President, a Los Angeles synagogue opens its doors
About 99% of synagogues in California remain closed. Louis Keene writes: Mere hours after President Donald Trump called on governors to open places of worship, calling the institutions “essential,” one Los Angeles congregation pounced on the opportunity. In defiance of … Continue reading
How does a Jew atone for apostasy?
Marc B. Shapiro blogs: * Since I just mentioned R. Hayyim Eleazar Shapira, let me mention something else he says that is fascinating. In the past two posts I discussed apostate rabbis. It is bad enough when an average person … Continue reading