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Women’s Prayer Groups Are Passe
In a 2010 lecture on R. Joseph Messas and R. Avraham Shapiro, Marc B. Shapiro (no relation) says that the Sephardim have always had a positive view of the return to Israel. Sephardim have never been anti-Zionist. Rav Messas wrote … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, Marc B. Shapiro, Modern Orthodox, Orthodoxy
Tagged Marc B. Shapiro, mechitza, prayer groups, rabbi avi weiss, sefer torah, traditional judaism, upper west side
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Pico-Robertson Gets A New Shul – The LINK Shul
Email: With great and bursting praise to the Almighty, we formally announce the beginning of the New LINK Shul – an offshoot of the LINK Kollel. Where will the shul be located? In our Kollel, 1453 Robertson – corner of … Continue reading
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Tagged Kollel, mechitza, mincha, new shul, preschool facility, types of jews
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Heshy Fried Visits LA
Watch our interviews. Heshy writes on FrumSatire.net: The Happy Minyan was the happiest shul I’ve ever been to, everyone was hugging, dancing and smiling the whole time – it wasn’t just about the post lecha dodi dancing, this was full … Continue reading
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Tagged cholent, good shabbos, heshy, mechitza, nai david, orthodox shul
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The Moshav Band Plays The Happy Minyan Saturday Night
I heard the crowd got so excited that they started throwing their sheitels on stage. A friend says: “A group of women started dancing together and the men rushed out with a makeshift mechitza to put around them. I was … Continue reading
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Tagged davening, mechitza, minyan, Moshav Band, sheitels
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How To Know If You Are Modern Orthodox
From FrumSatire.net: You eat Vegan out You go to the beach You have mixed seating at weddings, brisim, shalom zachors, etc
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Tagged english names, lecha dodi, mechitza, Modern Orthodox, shul, yedid nefesh
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I Got Poked On Facebook
These chicks poked me on Facebook and I’m not sure what to do. Do I poke back? Do I message back? Do I ask ’em out? Do I make wedding plans? Is this serious or is this just play? I’m … Continue reading
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