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Widow Gets Victory In Court

Jack emails: “I wonder if the rebitzen will be able to sell these torahs with the stigma attached to them.” The Los Angeles Daily News reports: The widow of a North Hollywood rabbi who has fought for years to regain … Continue reading

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Los Angeles Torah Scroll Dispute

Julie Fax writes July 20, 2010 in the Jewish Journal: Despite two rabbinic court rulings against him, a Sherman Oaks rabbi is refusing to turn over four Torah scrolls that a rabbi’s widow says belong to her. In May, a … Continue reading

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No One Is Above The Law – A Lesson From This Week’s Torah Portion

Dr. Mark H. Kirschbaum writes for Tikkun: In this, the last perasha in Sefer Shemot, we are going to deal with one of the more ostensibly uninteresting passages in the Torah, and some quite interesting possible readings of it. This … Continue reading

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Los Angeles Superior Court Petitioned To Confirm RCC Ruling Against San Fernando Valley’s Rabbi Samuel Ohana

The RCC already ruled on behalf of the widow against the rabbi of Beth Midrash Mishkan Israel (13312 Burbank Blvd., Sherman Oaks, CA 91401) in a dispute over four Torah scrolls. Here’s a pdf of the latest petition in the … Continue reading

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The Third Temple: Israel’s Missing Link

Chaim Chlorfene writes: In the introduction to his book Ohr Hamikdash (Light of the Temple), Rabbi Moshe Luria, explains that the Torah, the Sabbath, and the Holy Temple are respectively the essence of Wisdom, Understanding, and Knowledge (Chachmah, Binah, and … Continue reading

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