Daily Archives: August 19, 2011

War Is Sometimes The Answer

Rachel posts to FB: wonders about those who say “war is not the answer”, yet also sympathize with *terrorists* who attack innocent civilians, calling them “freedom fighters”. Isn’t that what soldiers in, say, Afghanistan and Iraq consider themselves – people … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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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

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