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Monthly Archives: August 2011
The Ambivalent Relationship Between Alexander Technique And Mainstream Healthcare
Alexander Technique does not claim to cure disease. It does not pretend to be a therapy. Instead, it is an educational technique for learning to move the way the body likes to move. I’m reading an interesting British study of … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Technique
Tagged alexander technique teachers, ambivalent relationship, educational technique, inhibition, london school of economics, marc wallice, michel foucault, san francisco bath houses, work practices
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The Challenge To Orthodox Judaism From Within
Rabbi Dov Fischer writes: This is the Way of the new challenge to Mesorah emanating from “Morethodoxy,” the International Rabbinic Fellowship (IRF), and the Chovevei Torah seminary (YCT). As new demands from them emerge to ordain women rabbis, to conduct … Continue reading
Posted in Modern Orthodox, R. Yosef Kanefsky
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Britain’s Moral Decay
By Jonathan Rosenblum, on August 19th, 2011 Riots that started in London’s Hackney neighborhood last week spread quickly across London and to other large British cities, as rioters saw policemen standing back as they looted and burned. Meanwhile, in major … Continue reading
Posted in England
Tagged british underclass, british welfare, city crime rates, flash mobs, Jonathan Rosenblum, loot stores
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What Is Wrong With Britain?
Just as the 1991 Los Angeles Riots provoked soul-searching on the part of this city, the London Riots are causing a rethink of social policy in Great Britain in particular and the western world in general. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach writes: … Continue reading
Posted in England, Shmuley Boteach
Tagged christian bodies, dead girls, london riots, los angeles riots, rabbi shmuley boteach, university professors
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Is This What Discrimination Looks Like?
A few weeks ago, the rabbi of Bnai David-Judea wrote that he was no longer saying the morning blessing “Thank you God for not making me a woman” because it reflected bigotry towards women and that Orthodox Judaism had a … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, Pico/Robertson, R. Yosef Kanefsky
Tagged beth jacob congregation, family purity, nai david, orthodox rabbis, orthodox shuls, torah scholarship
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