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Daily Archives: September 26, 2010
My Friend Rodger Jacobs Fears Homelessness
His plight is being chronicled in the Las Vegas Sun. The latest video shows him smoking and drinking, leading to commenters giving him a hard time for getting government aid (social security disability for psoriasis). Rodger says in the video … Continue reading
Posted in Rodger Jacobs
Tagged government aid, homelessness, plight, social security disability, vegas sun, work opportunities
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When Do Big Rabbis Become Small Rabbis?
In his third lecture on Rabbi Chalom Messas for Torah in Motion, Rabbi Marc B. Shapiro says: I don’t think Rabbi Yitzhak Abadi has any following. He learned his whole life in the Litvisha world. Rav Abadi was the posek … Continue reading
Posted in Lakewood, Marc B. Shapiro, R. Yitzhak Abadi
Tagged chalom, har nof, kotler, Marc B. Shapiro, torah in motion, yeshivot
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The Case For Concubines
In his third lecture on Rabbi Chalom Messas for Torah in Motion, Rabbi Marc B. Shapiro says: [In 2006], Zvi Zohar in Israel, an expert in Sephardic halacah, just came out with a book on 20th Century Sephardic rabbis. He … Continue reading
Posted in Marc B. Shapiro, Sex
Tagged chalom, jewish view, Marc B. Shapiro, ramban, shabbos table, torah in motion
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A Convert’s Sad Story
Anonymous writes: I am a convert. There can be no question that I am halakhically Jewish, at least if you trust the Lubavitchers to know halakha. I am writing to protest the downright shameful treatment of converts by the Orthodox … Continue reading
Posted in Conversion, Haredi
Tagged conservative rabbi, converting to judaism, first five books, orthodox jews, orthodox rabbi, shameful treatment
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Making God Look Bad To The World
In his fifth lecture on Rabbi Joseph Elijah Henkin (the leading posek in America during the 1940s and 1950s) for Torah in Motion, Rabbi Marc B. Shapiro says: Rav Henkin says Jews must be careful about how they speak about … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Hasidim, Marc B. Shapiro
Tagged David Kelsey, haredi world, Marc B. Shapiro, noahide laws, orthodox jews, orthodox world, pearl gluck, rabbi joseph, torah in motion, traditional judaism
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