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Tag Archives: melamed
Murder For Pious Reasons
Marc B. Shapiro writes: What is new is that parents are now beginning to stand up. Here is a passage from a nineteenth-century memoir from which we see that in the past even murder was covered up. (The case described … Continue reading
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Does Judaism Sanction Journalism?
Orthodox rabbi Gil Student writes: R. Eliezer Melamed is active with Arutz Sheva and is the rabbi of the weekly newspaper Be-Sheva (link). In one of his columns (13 Tammuz, 5765/ July 20, 2005), he responded to a question about … Continue reading
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Love The Convert
Rabbi Eliezer Melamed writes in the Jewish Press: The laws regarding converts to Judaism are among the most astounding in the Torah. They teach us that any non-Jew who truly and earnestly seeks to join the Jewish people may do … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient culture, anti semite, converts to judaism, despair, deuteronomy, extreme difficulties, first glance, inner strength, insult, jew, jewish law, jewish press, melamed, nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp, rabbi eliezer, rich tradition, rsquo, shulchan aruch, Torah, truth of the matter
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