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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Suing Chief Rabbinate Over Annulled Conversions
Why didn’t the RCA do this? Haaretz reports: A local nonprofit assisting Jewish converts is for the first time planning to take the Chief Rabbinate of Israel to court for not preventing the retroactive annulment of conversions, Anglo File has … Continue reading
Posted in Conversion
Tagged assistance organization, chief rabbinate, haaretz, jewish converts, religious status, seth farber
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Immigration News
Now Follow CIS at Twitter: http://twitter.com/wwwCISorg 1. Backgrounder: Dirty Work: In-Sourcing American Jobs with H-2B Guestworkers 2. Blog: Update on Fuzzy Words in the Immigration Policy Debate 3. Blog: A Response to Amy Mehta’s Call to Strip the ‘Mask’ 4. … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration
Tagged guestworker, illegal aliens, immigration news, immigration policy, lobster roll, visa program
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Reb Moshe’s Lonely Stand On Seclusion
The law against “Yichud” (seclusion) is normally understood in orthodox Jewish law as preventing a man and a woman (who are not married, nor family members) from being together alone in a room. Given the bevy of women who traipse … Continue reading
Posted in Abner Weiss, R. Moshe Feinstein, R. Steven Weil
Tagged Abner Weiss, Beth Jacob, jewish law, moral accountability, office doors, rabbi mordecai tendler, reb moshe, violating the law
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Women Must Be Believed?
The rabbinic commentator Ramah said about accusations of adultery that women are believed (if they confess to adultery). The assumption is if the woman says it, it must be true, because it would be too embarrassing to lie about. That’s … Continue reading
Posted in Adultery
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Does The RCC President Matter?
No. What matters for the Rabbinical Council of California is who runs it and that is the tough as nails passionate baal teshuva Rabbi Avrohom Union. The RCC current president is Rabbi Meyer May. The organization wouldn’t operate much differently … Continue reading
Posted in R. Avrohom Union, R. Meyer May, RCC
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