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Kabbalist Lindsay Lohan
Lindsay Lohan has been studying kabbalah for years. She even wears that red string on her wrist. She was spotted in the parking lot of the Jewish Learning Academy for Rosh Hashanah two years ago. She’s sought counsel from the … Continue reading
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Bnai Brak Is Out Of This World
In his third lecture on Rabbi Joseph Elijah Henkin (the leading posek in America during the 1940s and 1950s) for Torah in Motion, Rabbi Marc B. Shapiro says: Rav Ahron Kotler was able to squash yeshivas from having secular learning….but … Continue reading
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Rabbi Tropper Is Back!
One of the signs of a successful penitent, our tradition teaches us, is that he is able to forgive himself. By this standard, Rabbi Leib Tropper is a tzaddik! Rabbi Daniel Eidensohn blogs: Contrary to those who claim that Tropper … Continue reading
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Financially Supporting Your Man So He Can Study Torah All Day
Yeed comments: If it was an equal relationship, you would find many such arrangements. In actual fact, you virtually never find such a relationship. (And if the Zevulun would be required to literaly give half of his earnings, then you … Continue reading
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Lindsay Lohan At Jewish Learning Academy Thursday
She mainly hung out in the parking lot… I keep hearing great things about the Jewish Learning Academy. Here is its website.
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