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Conservative Movement Joins Fight Against Kapparot

From the Jerusalem Post: The Masorti (Conservative) Movement will join forces with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals – Tel Aviv to fight against the Jewish custom known as kapparot that involves slaughtering chickens as a way … Continue reading

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The Jewish Press Interviews Rabbi Gil Student

From Hirhurim: The Jewish Press has an interview with me this week (link). Here’s an excerpt and you can read the whole thing at the source: In the world of Orthodox blogs, few are as popular as Hirhurim.blogspot.com, run by … Continue reading

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The Journal Of Halacha And Contemporary Society

Rabbi Gil Student blogs: The Succot 5770/Fall 2009 issue of The Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society has been published: Correcting the Ba’al Koreh: Punctilious Performance vs. Public Embarrassment by R. Moshe Rosenberg – A fantastic discussion of the multiple … Continue reading

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Is Judaism Right-Wing Or Left-Wing?

It is neither. Judaism was thousands of years old before the modern political terms of Right and Left developed any meaning. In the New York Times Sunday Book Review, Leon Wieseltier disects Norman Podhoretz’s new book, "Why Are Jews Liberal?" … Continue reading

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Artificial Insemination Forbidden For Single Women

Jerusalem Orthodox Rabbi Shlomo Aviner writes: Q: If it permissible for a single woman, who is reaching the age of forty, sees that she does not have a reasonable chance of getting married and desperately wants a baby, to be … Continue reading

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