Jewish News

From TorahMusings.com:

▪ Prof. Lawrence Schiffman to join YU as Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (via e-mail)
▪ The Jewish Matchmaker
▪ RCA clarification on brain death
▪ King James Bible at 400
▪ Richard Joel interview
▪ Faculty oversight at YU (aka censorship)
▪ R. Tuvia Lasdun, of all those memorable Kol Nidreis at YU, passes away
▪ HODS vitriol continues, this time against R. Jonathan Sacks
▪ ORA’s clarification re the NY Times (PDF)
▪ Designing a 22nd-century classic
▪ The Kosher Bookworm: You do have a prayer
▪ Charedim applaud visa rule change
▪ Why scholars’ motives should be irrelevant to our evaluation of their scholarship
▪ The Hassidim of the Consumer Electronics Show
▪ Obnoxious review of the as-yet-unpublished new RCA siddur
▪ The truth about the VosIzNeias ban
▪ R. Berel Wein: Righteous Women
▪ Tzena Tzena (American version)
▪ SALT Friday
▪ Pre-nup law won’t affect the get
▪ Employers in Professional Fields Reluctant to Hire Charedim
▪ Jewish community stresses feelings at its peril
▪ Israeli court gives green light to “modesty buses”
▪ Synagogue: First Black Woman Rabbi Not “Right Fit”
▪ Rabbis take a stand on road safety
▪ Who Needs Hebrew?
▪ SALT Thursday
▪ R. Weinreb: What’s Needed In Orthodox Leadership
▪ Beyond Excess: Finding better rewards for our leaders
▪ A tour of Iraq’s ancient sites (video)
▪ Study probes religious teens’ sexual guilt
▪ YU ethics expert censures rabbis over brain-stem death
▪ Jewish runners decry post-Yom Kippur marathon
▪ New Yorker heads for Jewish school
▪ Slum-Touring Millionaires Put Off the Ritz in Israel
▪ SALT Wednesday
▪ A mitzvah project with the help of online crowd-sourcing
▪ Religious divorce dispute leads to secular protest
▪ Shas seeks law against ethnic bias in haredi schools
▪ On Facebook, parents are new immigrants, children are natives
▪ SALT Tuesday
▪ Eating disorders a problem among haredim
▪ R. Druckman: It’s a rabbi’s duty to voice opinions
▪ Safed rabbi interrogated on incitement charges
▪ Company battles Hebrew U over Einstein image
▪ Rabbi leads Torah trafficking ring