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Tag Archives: haaretz
Busty Israeli Model Orit Fox Bitten In Breast By Snake
I feel like there is a deep moral message in the following story but I can’t quite figure it out yet. The New York Daily News reports: A busty model and an angry snake together for a photo shoot – … Continue reading
Posted in Israel
Tagged breast implant, haaretz, new york daily news, public relations efforts, sex factor, silicone poisoning, snake bit, spanish profanity
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Raping Peace Activists
This Haaretz story is getting a lot of play in the blogosphere. Is the raping of a peace activist by the Palestinian man they’re protecting just desserts? Extremely impolite? Or who are we to judge? That’s his culture. It seems … Continue reading
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Tagged blogosphere, female activists, haaretz, novel disgrace, palestinian man, peace activist, peace activists
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Suing Chief Rabbinate Over Annulled Conversions
Why didn’t the RCA do this? Haaretz reports: A local nonprofit assisting Jewish converts is for the first time planning to take the Chief Rabbinate of Israel to court for not preventing the retroactive annulment of conversions, Anglo File has … Continue reading
Posted in Conversion
Tagged assistance organization, chief rabbinate, haaretz, jewish converts, religious status, seth farber
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Using Sex To Sell Torah
I was doing some research on Rabbi Simcha Weinberg and found some interesting comments about his late uncle Noah Weinberg, the founder of Aish HaTorah. I did not realize there was so much venom towards him. I researched these attacks … Continue reading
Posted in Aish HaTorah, Haredi, R. Noah Weinberg, R. Simcha Weinberg
Tagged Aish HaTorah, discovery seminar, haaretz, kiruv, norman lamm, professional satisfaction, ramhal, shaliach, soloveitchik, torah code
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Israel’s New York Times
Jason Maoz — the most underrated writer in the Jewish media — writes for The Jewish Press: It takes a time like this for the full fury of Israel’s leftists to erupt in the face of their own country and … Continue reading
Posted in Jason Maoz
Tagged ed pieces, haaretz, jewish media, jewish press, maoz, representative sampling
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Jewish Bloggers Conference Aug. 20 In Jerusalem
I don’t have a side in any of the debates in this article. I just have one opinion: Some people decided to create an event (Nefesh B’Nefesh Jewish Blogger Convention) for Jewish bloggers to come together. A sponsor was found … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging
Tagged failed messiah, first glance, haaretz, kind of madness, orthodox judaism, orthodox religion
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Two Assaults On Religious Zionism
Caroline Glick writes: Israel’s 2005 withdrawal from Gaza was presented to the world as a strategic bid to enhance prospects for peace between the Palestinians and Israel. Proponents of the move argued that removing all Israeli civilians and military … Continue reading
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Tagged ariel sharon, caroline glick, disengagement, fatah, grievances, haaretz, hamas and fatah, israeli civilians, israeli policy, judea and samaria, mortar shells, nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp, pretext, prime minister ariel sharon, progeny, religious zionism, rsquo, subtext, withdrawal from gaza, zionists
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How Should Religious Zionism React To The Conversion Controversy?
Shahar Ilan writes in Haaretz: If anyone thought that religious Zionism should continue having anything to do with the Chief Rabbinate or the rabbinic courts, along came the ousting of Rabbi Haim Druckman from his position as head of the … Continue reading
Posted in Conversion
Tagged chief rabbinate, conversion controversy, conversion system, conversions, court of appeals, former soviet union, haaretz, israelis, mass conversion, national challenge, rabbi, rabbinical court, Rabbis, religious establishment, religious women, religious zionism, russian immigrants, sabbatical year, tough questions, zionists
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Cruelty In The Name Of God
From Haaretz: The decision by three rabbinic judges at the Supreme Rabbinic Court in Jerusalem, headed by Rabbi Avraham Sherman, to annul conversions conducted since 1999 by Rabbi Haim Druckman and the conversion court system comes as no surprise. The … Continue reading
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Tagged circumstances, conjunction, Conversion, conversions, converts, divorce proceedings, excuse, haaretz, harassment, Jerusalem, Judaism, Marriage, name of god, prime minister, rabbi avraham, regional court, revocation, strictures, surprise
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After His Death, He Was Promoted To The Rank Of Jew
From Haaretz: Yesmao Yela’o was preparing to visit his mother in Ethiopia, whom he had not seen in five years, but the Second Lebanon War started and he was called up. "He told me that if he comes back from … Continue reading
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Tagged absorption center, ayelet hashahar, chief rabbinate, childhood friend, christian mother, combat training, ethiopian immigrants, golani brigade, haaretz, hezbollah fighters, jewish agency, kibbutz, lebanon war, postal authority, pre dawn, rabbi menachem, squad commander, western sector, yaron, yela
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