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Lakewood Community Rocked By Non-Jewish Man Posing As Jew!
From The Yeshiva World: (Lakewood Staff Writer – YWN) The Lakewood Jewish community is shocked after learning that a “Frum” man living in the heart of Lakewood, was anything but Frum. A source tells YWN, that a family has been … Continue reading
Posted in Lakewood
Tagged 6 years, charade, dead person, FBI, forest park area, handcuffs, jew, jewish community, jewish man, jewish roots, lakewood community, lakewood nj, levi, mr ted, natan, rsquo, screeching halt, study partners, Torah, yeshiva world
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Rabbi Aryeh Ben David On God, Prayer And The Good Life
He wrote The Godfile: 10 Approaches to Personalizing Prayer (a book I read twice in a week instead of praying at shul). We did this interview via email: LF: What do you mean by this: "Everything that is true (vertically) … Continue reading
Posted in Aryeh Ben David, Prayer
Tagged adin, aryeh, close connection, empirical proof, lf, personal prayer, personality, physic, rabbi, rav, Relationships, rsquo, shabbat, siddur, something concrete, spiritual relationship, Spirituality, wit
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Alleged Sex Abuse by Principal Roils Australia
Dan Goldberg writes for the Forward: Sydney, Australia — Australia’s tight-knit ultra-Orthodox community is being roiled by allegations that the principal of a girls’ high school molested a number of her former students. Malka Leifer, headmistress of Melbourne’s Adass Israel … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Australia
Tagged belz, chaya, crown heights riots, former students, headmistress, israel girls, mdash, mikvah, native israel, orthodox community, rosenbaum, rsquo, s board, Satmar, school board members, sects, sex abuse, sexual misconduct, sydney australia, yankel
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Welcome To The Dating World… One Yeshiva Bochur’s Purim Perspective
Eli M. writes for The Jewish Press: When you are “frozen,” you are being chained to a state of “bochurhood” in which you are suspended between the life you had and the new life that awaits you. Tu B’Shevat is … Continue reading
Posted in Dating, Yeshiva
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The Orthodox Conversion To Judaism
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky writes: There is a sign hanging in my office that should be standard in the office of every rabbi, communal leader, worker for Klal Yisrael or activist of any sort. It reads: “For every action there is … Continue reading
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Tagged admonitions, chief rabbinate, communal leader, conversion to judaism, conversions, falsehood, inception, jewish community, jewish week, majority opinion, orthodox conversion, overwhelming majority, promulgation, proximate cause, rabbi, RCA, restrictive regulations, rsquo, untruth, yisrael
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Come Home
D. emails: “Greeting Happy Sabbath, I don’t know you, never heard of you until today while doing research on the internet. I was looking up info regarding the SDA church and what happened in the 70’s and 80’s. The name … Continue reading
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Tagged 3rd generation, desmond ford, doing research, ford, God, hypocrites, jesus, pastors, preacher, remnant church, rsquo, Sabbath, sda church
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Eliot Spitzer’s Jewish Identity
From the Forward: In the last statewide public opinion poll taken before news broke of Eliot Spitzer’s involvement in a high-priced prostitution ring, the New York governor’s approval rating was below 50% for every major demographic group, except one: his … Continue reading
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The Hooker Who Brought Down The Governor
From the New York Times: Woman at the Center of Governor’s Downfall By SERGE F. KOVALESKI and IAN URBINA 5:49 PM ET Ashley Alexandra Dupre, 22, the prostitute known as Kristen in court papers, said in an interview, “I just … Continue reading
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