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Category Archives: Hershel Schachter
The New York Times Vs. Meir Kin
I don’t take sides in the Meir Kin vs Lonna Kin (four marriages) divorce dispute. As I understand it, Meir Kin offered his wife a get (Jewish divorce) through a controversial Beit Din in Monsey. Lonna Kin wanted to get … Continue reading
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Marc Shapiro: Hershel Schachter’s Books Are Interesting
In his first lecture on R. Meir Simcha of Dvinsk for Torah in Motion, history professor Marc B. Shapiro says: Hershel Schachter’s books are very interesting. The halachic stuff is great. Unfortunately, so much of the history is garbled. Rav … Continue reading
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Rabbi Hershel Shachter’s Rav Revisionism
Marc B. Shapiro blogs: It is common to hear among YU figures the expression “hakhmei ha-mesorah,” referring to authoritative rabbinic spokesmen. Readers can correct me if I am mistaken, but I don’t think that this expression, with the meaning currently … Continue reading
Posted in Hershel Schachter, Marc B. Shapiro, Rabbis, RCC
Tagged emanuel rackman, high holiday, Marc B. Shapiro, personal opposition, schachter, soloveitchik
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The Jewish View On Brain Death, Organ Donation
The Jewish Week reports Jan. 11, 2011: Faced with two well-founded positions of Jewish law on when death occurs for the purpose of organ donations, the country’s major Modern Orthodox rabbinic group has similarly ruled that both brain-stem death and … Continue reading
Posted in Hershel Schachter, R. Moshe Tendler, RCA
Tagged avraham shapira, blood libel, brain death, brain stem death, core issues, moshe tendler, rabbi moshe, rabbi tendler
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Meir Kin Responds To Rabbinic Contempt Order
Meir Kin reponds to this: Dear Community: It is with a heavy heart that we stand today before Tisha B’Av and yet have not learned the lessons of the past. The Bais Hamikdosh was destroyed because of baseless hatred coupled … Continue reading
Posted in Divorce, Hershel Schachter, Meir Kin, RCC
Tagged dear community, divorce case, fellow jew, heavy heart, rabbinical council of california, scribd
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A Nasty Fight The Rabbis Wrought
The RCC put up this website MeirKin.com to pressure Meir Kin to give his wife a divorce through the RCC. The website lists Meir Kin’s home address. Meir Kin is willing to give his wife a divorce through a Beit … Continue reading
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Tagged home addresses, jewish divorce, Monsey, orthodox rabbis, RCC
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Another Book On Divine Providence
Jaded Topaz echoes my thoughts: Why is everyone falling in love with "hashkafah" all over again every morning and new yeshiva "zman". I think arguing "hashkafah" is such an utter waste of intellectual energy,the concept is laughable on its face. … Continue reading
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Tagged approbations, divine providence, guest introduction, hashkafah, intellectual energy, medieval works, utter waste
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YU’s Rosh Yeshiva Jokes About Shooting Israel’s Prime Minister If He Withdraws From Jerusalem
Nat Barnat writes on Jewschool: Last Wednesday, Rabbi Herschel Schachter, a Rosh Yeshiva at YU, was giving a class to young Americans at Yeshivat HaKotel in Jerusalem. At some point, the class was opened up to questions, and in response … Continue reading
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Tagged advocates, apology, demands respect, fairness, hakotel, herschel, incitement, Jerusalem, jewish law, jewish week, kicker, law demands, mouths, prime minister, rabbi, rosh yeshiva, rsquo, state of israel, young americans, youtube video
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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
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