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Tag Archives: orthodox rabbi
A Woman Leads Kiddish At Bnai David
Reb Mimi Feigelson, who some say was the first woman ordained an Orthodox rabbi (99% of Orthodox Jews would not recognize any woman as a rabbi), led the shul kiddish one Shabbos morning three weeks back. Leading the kiddish has … Continue reading
Posted in Bnai David-Judea, Feminism, Mimi Feigelson, Orthodoxy
Tagged orthodox jews, orthodox rabbi, orthodox shul, reb, shabbos
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Agriprocessors Is Only A Pretext
I don’t know any rabbi who’s taken a public position on Agriprocessors who’s done much work verifying the facts of the case and conducting a thorough investigation. Instead, Agriprocessors is a pretext. For the chareidi, it is another example of … Continue reading
Posted in Agriprocessors, Rabbis
Tagged anthony weiss, chabad rabbi, conservative rabbi, orthodox rabbi, orthodox rabbis, postville iowa
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Claiming Your Jewish Identity In Israel
Orthodox rabbi Seth Farber writes: As Anna Gostamelsky shattered Israel’s national swimming record for the 100-meter freestyle on Sunday evening in Beijing, once again demonstrating her incredible endurance, I couldn’t help thinking about another battle she has been fighting, this … Continue reading
Posted in Conversion, Israel
Tagged athens olympic games, jewish religious law, meter freestyle, orthodox rabbi, rabbinical courts, seth farber
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JConnectLA’s Tu’B’Av Party Thursday Night
The first two pictures (all my pictures are taken in lousy light with my new Blackberry Curve) are from The Eighth Day band: Michael Taviv, JConnectLA director: Helen Jupiter, managing editor of Jewcy.com, with her manly man: Luke Ford and … Continue reading
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Tagged blackberry curve, Jewcy, luke ford, Moshav Band, orthodox rabbi, philanderer
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A Rabbi’s Curious Allegations
Nathan Lewin writes for The Jewish Press: In a front-page article asserting that minors had been hired to work in an Iowa kosher meat-packing plant and in an editorial calling the plant the modern equivalent of Upton Sinclair’s The … Continue reading
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Tagged meat packing plant, media frenzy, nathan lewin, orthodox rabbi, rabbi shmuel, rabbi yisroel
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‘I Have Never Forgotten You’
On Tisha B’Av, it is the Jewish way not to greet each other. As I walked around this Tisha B’Av, I kept asking myself, "How is this day different from all other days?" In Luke Ford Land, it is always … Continue reading
Posted in JConnect LA
Tagged Museum of Tolerance, orthodox rabbi, rabbi marvin hier, simon weisenthal, vip tour
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Emancipation & Enlightenment
Here’s a partial transcript of sociologist Steven Cohen’s talk July 10, 2008: Steven: "If you want to understand people, you need to know two things about them. Who do they hang out with and what do they value?" He talks … Continue reading
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Tagged baby boom generation, emancipation, individualism, jewish parent, jewish parents, orthodox rabbi, partial transcript, quot quot, remarkable changes, social circles, steven cohen
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Orthodox Rabbi Advocates Free Love
I caught the Shabbos morning sermon by Shalhevet’s new moral leader Rabbi Elchanan Weinbach. He noted that the Talmud says the second temple was destroyed because of needless hatred (sinat chinam) among Jews. Rabbi Weinbach gave the familiar but impractical … Continue reading
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Tagged love quot, milken high school, morning sermon, orthodox rabbi, rabbi weinbach, shabbos morning
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Why People Become Orthodox
From Hirhurim: Orthodox Rabbi Kenneth Brander is the inaugural Dean of Yeshiva University, Center for the Jewish Future (CJF). Rabbi Brander is also the Rabbi Emeritus of the Boca Raton Synagogue, founding dean of the Boca Raton Community Kollel, and … Continue reading
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Tagged community kollel, conservative community, orthodox rabbi, palm beach counties, rabbi emeritus, religious standards
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How Would God Vote?
Nachum Lamm writes in response’s to Rabbi Gil Student’s critique of David Klinghoffer’s latest book: "Be that as it may, what about the hundreds if not thousands of years during which Jewish communities supported their local poor as collectives. Does … Continue reading
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Tagged David Klinghoffer, gil student, jewish invention, muslim population, orthodox rabbi, right wingers
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