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Monthly Archives: April 2010
Yisroel Pensack: Some Thoughts on the Sentencing Hearing of Sholom Rubashkin
A sentencing hearing in the financial fraud case of former Agriprocessors kosher slaughterhouse manager and Lubavitcher chassid Sholom Rubashkin is scheduled to begin tomorrow (Wednesday) in federal court in Iowa. There is a concept in Judaism that each Shabbat “blesses,” … Continue reading
Posted in Agriprocessors, Chabad, Ethics, Fraud, Judaism, Kashrut, Torah, Truth, Yisroel Pensack
Tagged animal slaughter, chillul Hashem, conduit for blessing, confession, egypt, federal court, Iowa, lubavitcher, lubavitcher rebbe, Pesach sheni, Rashi, sacrificing animals, second Passover, sentencing hearing, shabbat, Sholom Rubashkin, wages, weights and measures, yom kippur
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Spirituality In Orthodox Judaism
Joe emails: The basic problem is that there is no way for spirituality to keep up with technology. Technology is anti-spiritual in a real way. Yes, it is pretty cool that you can go to a site on your iphone … Continue reading
Posted in Orthodoxy
Tagged lonely path, man of faith, mission technology, orthodox judaism, virtual beit midrash, yeshivat har etzion
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Jews & Goldman Sachs
Chaim Amalek writes: More troubling is the current spate of attacks on Goldman Sachs (and who here remembers Joe McCarthy?). Personally, I think that a world without Goldman Sachs would be a world in which the living would envy the … Continue reading
Posted in Chaim Amalek
Tagged amalek, bais, goldman sachs, goyim, jewish power, joe mccarthy
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Letter in Response to Criticism of Sinai Temple’s Unity Concert
Bryan Berkette emails: Dear Robert and Susanne, I received an email from you yesterday (see below) that was well written but left me disappointed and distressed. You were upset that Tuesday
Posted in Sinai Temple
Tagged holocaust survivors, interfaith celebration, name of allah, peace and unity, Sinai Temple, unity theme
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The Time Of Trouble
I’ve found that I get the most exciting stories from the people with the least going on in their lives. You talk to homeless people and they’ll tell you about government satellites beaming subliminal messages into their brains. By contrast, … Continue reading
Posted in Adventist, Personal
Tagged divine truth, government satellites, orthodox judaism, sam kinison, seventh day adventism, seventh day adventists
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