Daily Archives: October 16, 2010

How Many Troubled Kids Can A School Take In Before It Is A Troubled School?

Posted on October 16, 2010 by Luke Ford

Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy is the only Orthodox elementary school in Los Angeles who admits troubled kids. Other yeshivos don’t want the aggravation. So let’s say you let in a hyper-active kid who creates a lot of tsures (trouble). What … Continue reading →

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I Love Luxury

Posted on October 16, 2010 by Luke Ford

Dr. Spielvogel, the first time and only time I’ve lived with a woman was in Orlando, Florida, in 1993. About a month or two in (we only lasted four months), she said to me, “You love luxury a lot more … Continue reading →

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Spitting On Yom Kippur

Posted on October 16, 2010 by Luke Ford

In a March 10, 2009 lecture on Leviticus 19: 26-28, Dennis Prager said: When I was in yeshiva, a very very pious rabbi who on Yom Kippur was so careful not to drink that he would not even swallow his … Continue reading →

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Reason & Religion

Posted on October 16, 2010 by Luke Ford

Jeff emails: The Litvaks were not more “rational” than the Chassidim, in fact, the Gra and R. Haim were major league Kabbalists, the Gra wrote more on Kabbala than he did on Talmud, and we have R. Haim Brisker’s kavvanot … Continue reading →

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