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Tag Archives: Abner Weiss
Journalists Love Indifference
There’s no emotional quality that journalists prize more in their subjects than indifference. When you deal with people who react in a volatile way to what you write about them, you can’t help but think they are emotionally weak. Think … Continue reading
Posted in Rabbis
Tagged Abner Weiss, artson, avi weiss, David Rue, emotional quality, joseph telushkin
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Reb Moshe’s Lonely Stand On Seclusion
The law against “Yichud” (seclusion) is normally understood in orthodox Jewish law as preventing a man and a woman (who are not married, nor family members) from being together alone in a room. Given the bevy of women who traipse … Continue reading
Posted in Abner Weiss, R. Moshe Feinstein, R. Steven Weil
Tagged Abner Weiss, Beth Jacob, jewish law, moral accountability, office doors, rabbi mordecai tendler, reb moshe, violating the law
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Pico-Robertson In The 1960s
It was populated with faux yeshivas to get Orthodox Jews out of the Vietnam draft. By 1980, there were only two Orthodox synagogues in the community — Young Israel of South Beverly Hills and Beth Jacob. There wasn’t a kosher … Continue reading
Posted in Beth Jacob, Bnai David-Judea, Hancock Park, Haredi, Harkham Hillel, Pico/Robertson, R. Kalman Topp, YICC
Tagged Abner Weiss, Beth Jacob, orthodox shul, orthodox synagogues, rabbi maurice lamm, vietnam draft, YICC, Young Israel
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‘Breakshot: A Life in the 21st Century American Mafia’
I’m over 200 pages into this book. It is densely packed, filled with action, reflection, and wisdom. Buy it if you want to get inside a criminal mind who lived the life most of us only dream about in our … Continue reading
Posted in Jews, Mafia, Pornography, Prostitution
Tagged Abner Weiss, american mafia, brainwashing techniques, classic stereotype, hell week, jerry zimmerman, orthodox rabbis, talent scout
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Why Didn’t Rabbi Daniel Korobkin Make The Cut At Beth Jacob?
Because he did not apply. Rabbi Korobkin was the runner-up to Steven Weil in the 2000 search for a successor to Abner Weiss. He did not throw his hat in the ring this go round. By temperament, Rabbi Korobkin is … Continue reading
Posted in Daniel Korobkin, Modern Orthodox
Tagged Abner Weiss, Beth Jacob, elazar, orthodox jew, orthodox rabbis, rabbi daniel
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Re: Rav Daniel Arnall, Rav Abner Weiss
Gadi Shapiro ([email protected]) emails from the Israel Fathers Rights Advocacy Council about this post: Rav Daniel Arnall is not only one of the brightest intellectual rabbinic lights among the modern orthodox in LA (whenever I needed to borrow a copy … Continue reading
Posted in Abner Weiss, Daniel Arnall
Tagged Abner Weiss, advocacy council, american population, arnall, arnell, Beth Jacob, fathers rights, gadi, gmail, halachic decisions, ifrac, intelligent approach, last decade, Modern Orthodox, modernity, public apology, rav, RCC, rich elite, YICC
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