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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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