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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Yisroel Pensack: None Dare Call It Conservadox
Practically around the corner from where I live is a big old synagogue called Congregation Chevra Thilim that describes itself as “San Francisco’s oldest Orthodox congregation.” Chevra Thilim is currently undergoing a $1.6-million, months-long renovation, upgrade and expansion of its social hall building, which is … Continue reading
Posted in Chabad, Conservative Judaism, Conservatives, Dovid Eliezrie, Judaism, Modern Orthodox, Orthodoxy, San Francisco, Synagogue, Torah, Yisroel Pensack
Tagged "politically incorrect" blessings, $1.6 million, building on shabbos, burials, chabad lubavitch, congregation beth sholom, Congregation Chevra Thilim, Conservadox, David Kimel, gil student, kohanim, meis mitzvah, R. David Eliezrie, R. Shimon Margolin, R. Shlomo Zarchi, R. Yosef Langer, social hall, yetzer hara
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Get Ready For Female Modern Orthodox Rabbis
Historian Marc B. Shapiro writes: Leaving aside the issue of serving as a dayan, it is obvious to me that women rabbis are coming to Modern Orthodoxy, even if the powers that be are standing firmly against it. Yet they … Continue reading
Posted in Marc B. Shapiro, Orthodoxy
Tagged agudah, halakhah, Marc B. Shapiro, orthodox world, torah study, women scholars
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Was Isadore Twersky A Rationalist Or A Mystic?
Marc B. Shapiro was Harvard professor Isadore Twersky‘s last major student. In his fifth lecture on R. Chaim Ozer Grodzinksi for Torah in Motion, history professor Marc B. Shapiro says: If you went to Rabbi Isadore Twersky’s shul on Shabbos … Continue reading
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Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival Rejects Important New Documentary About Rabbinic Sexual Abuse
How can L.A. festival chief Hilary Helstein continue after this? She’s a disgrace. How can she reject this new film recently written up in the Washington Post? Hilary Helstein Is Hilary right when she says this is a community that … Continue reading
Student Jailed For Racist Tweets
Holy cow! Europe doesn’t have free speech. I’m glad I don’t live there. SWANSEA, Wales (AP) — The student who mocked Bolton midfielder Fabrice Muamba on Twitter after the player collapsed on the field during a match has been jailed … Continue reading
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