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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Brooklyn Blogs Buzzing About Arrested Rabbis
From the New York Times: On a blog catering to young Syrian Jews in Brooklyn (where almost everyone has a blog), one comment seemed to crystallize the mix of puzzlement and dark humor emerging in some parts of their community … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Rabbis
Tagged dark humor, financial fraud, Rabbis, sephardic, solomon dwek, syrian jews
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The Strange Charedi Judaism Of Aish HaTorah
In his second lecture on Rav Elazar Shach, Dr. Marc B. Shapiro says: "His antipathy to kiruv (outreach) has nothing to do with his feelings for Chabad. What does it mean to do kiruv? It means to leave the yeshiva. … Continue reading
Posted in Aish HaTorah, Haredi, Marc B. Shapiro
Tagged Aish HaTorah, beit midrash, elazar, Marc B. Shapiro, ohr somayach, state of israel
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Harvard Prof Skip Gates Upset Policeman Did Not Recognize Him
Dennis Prager said on his radio show today (first hour): The President made things worse by commenting on it. He should’ve said, I don’t have all the facts, and end it there. Nobody would criticize you. I strongly doubt the … Continue reading
Posted in Blacks, Dennis Prager, Politics, Race
Tagged community organizers, Dennis Prager, harvard prof, liberal elite, liberal mind, medieval architecture, mr gates, privileged individuals, upscale neighborhood, wall street journal
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The Kosher History Of Coca Cola
Nachum Lamm posts: The most important part of the ingredients is "natural flavors," which is undefined. It doesn’t much matter if people knew Coke’s formula: There is one legal importer of coca leaves in the United States. It extracts the … Continue reading
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Tagged bottling plants, history of coca cola, kola nuts, nachum, natural flavors, sole producer
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Halachic Man
R. Ira Bedzow’s recent book: Halakhic Man, Authentic Jew: Modern Expressions of Orthodox Thought from Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits. Shmuel posts on Hirhurim: Halachic Man is not the Rav’s attempt to formulate a systematic all encompasing … Continue reading
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