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Category Archives: Yeshiva
The Last Of The Pure Sephardic Poskim
In a 2008 lecture for Torah in Motion on Rabbi Ben Zion Uzziel (former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel), history professor Marc B. Shapiro says: He’s one of the last of the few Sephardic poskim (deciders of Jewish law). The … Continue reading
Posted in Ashkenazim, Marc B. Shapiro, Orthodoxy, R. J. B. Soloveitchik, Sephardim, Yeshiva
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You Know You’re A Yeshiva Dropout When…
Sol Auerbach writes to Heshy Fried: 1) you almost forget that sex is in any way “bad” 2) you worry more about your health then your frumkeit 3) you stop pushing things off a half hour “because you must daven … Continue reading
How Common Is Spinka-Like Tax Fraud In American Yeshivot?
It is very common. Children learn it from their parents in business. We had a scandal in the past year among the Sephardic Jewish community in New York. Most of it comes from our Eastern European heritage where many Jews … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Yeshiva
Tagged benjamin netanyahu, czarist russia, eastern european heritage, orthodox judaism, reb moshe, sephardic jewish community
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Telshe Yeshiva College Falling Apart
The oldest yeshiva in America has a new administration. The Gifter family (which ran Telshe from 1964) is out in the cold. The powers now at Telshe include jeweler Jonah Sheinbaum, and rabbis Levitansky, Goldberg and Greenwald. Employees at Telshe … Continue reading
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Tagged chief rabbi, rabbi aaron, rabbi dovid, rabbi moshe feinstein, rabbi yisroel, yeshiva college
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Choosing Public School Over Homelessness
Mayer Fertig writes: After years of talk about a tuition crisis, many families that scrimped and sacrificed to send children to yeshiva in the past have hit a financial wall. “Many children will end up in public school as a … Continue reading
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Tagged babysitter, Chabad, failure rate, gil student, homelessness, jewish education, old cars, orthodox jewish community, sending your kids, student posts
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