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Daily Archives: August 17, 2008
Taking The Jewish Thing Seriously
I email a friend who’s just moved to LA: You should live in Pico/Robertson or Fairfax/La Brea if you want to do the Jewish thing… If you end up having to drive to shul on shabbos, it is a very … Continue reading
Posted in Conversion, RCC
Tagged Aish HaTorah, birthright israel trip, jewish gates, jewish journey, orthodox shul, religious jews
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Where Are The Haredi Voices In Jewish Publications?
Rabbi Avi Shafran of Agudath Yisrael writes: Yet all too often, only one side of each of those issues, and others, is regularly presented in the pages of some Jewish papers, including the Jewish Week. They tend to report and … Continue reading
Posted in Haredi, Jewish Journalism
Tagged conservative columnists, ed offerings, editorial stance, jewish papers, jewish path, rsquo
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Joseph Shereshevsky A Rabbi?
A source emails: FYI: Joseph Shereshevsky was never a rabbi. Rabbi Chaim Shereshevsky was his father. I found the link you probably wanted to send me (re: Tranquility Bay): He is referred to as Rabbi and research will tell you … Continue reading
Rabbi Arthur Waskow Gives Up The Jews’ Special Claim To The Land Of Israel
Rav Adlerstein blogs: Rabbi Waskow could have left it at that, but struck out on his own to reassure the indignant Muslim cleric that pigs and monkeys could sometimes take on human-like features There is growing amongst the Jewish people … Continue reading
Posted in R. Yitzhock Adlerstein
Tagged grain of salt, land of israel, muslim cleric, rabbi arthur waskow, reexamination, special relationship
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The Wars of Torah
Jonathan Rosenblum writes for The Jerusalem Post: Teenage haredi girls receive a secular education that is on a par with, and likely superior to, the average student in the state education system. Increasingly, haredi women are going into hi-tech, accounting … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Israel
Tagged golan heights, high school math, Jonathan Rosenblum, sexual peccadilloes, state education system, utter indifference
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