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Jewish News
From TorahMusings.com: ▪ Why liberal Judaism is in free fall ▪ Jewish-Christian Dialogue Today ▪ Rabbis reach deal on IDF conversions ▪ Local couple step up to the plate — er, chuppah ▪ Red Cross looks at providing kosher, halal … Continue reading
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Tagged coca cola formula, genocide scholars, jewish christian dialogue, moshe tendler, rabbi elyashiv, shlock rock
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Jewish News
From TorahMusings.com: ▪ Simon Wiesenthal and the ethics of history ▪ Is ‘Jewish’ Parenting Lax? ▪ Alien life deemed impossible by analysis of 500 planets ▪ Bias feared in public school proposal to absorb Yiddish special ed program ▪ Facts … Continue reading
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Tagged blood libel, diaspora jews, ethics of history, moshe tendler, organ donor card, simon wiesenthal
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The Jewish View On Brain Death, Organ Donation
The Jewish Week reports Jan. 11, 2011: Faced with two well-founded positions of Jewish law on when death occurs for the purpose of organ donations, the country’s major Modern Orthodox rabbinic group has similarly ruled that both brain-stem death and … Continue reading
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Tagged avraham shapira, blood libel, brain death, brain stem death, core issues, moshe tendler, rabbi moshe, rabbi tendler
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Rabbi Moshe Tendler Ascends The Temple Mount
From WorldNetDaily.com: A prominent U.S. rabbi recently ascended the Temple Mount – Judaism’s most revered site – stirring a quiet debate among some within the Jewish religious community about whether Jews should be permitted to enter the mount. Some rabbis … Continue reading
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Tagged jewish religious community, mahmoud abbas, moshe tendler, orthodox jewish community, palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas, quiet debate, rabbi moshe, some rabbis
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YU’s Tranny Prof – No Problem Says Rabbi
Rabbi Gil Student, the leader of Modern Orthodoxy in America, posts: The news is reporting that a tenured professor at Yeshiva University returned last week as a transgender individual (link). It seems that some rabbis are vocally opposed to this. … Continue reading
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Tagged aaron rakeffet rothkoff, gil student, jewish orthodoxy, moshe tendler, some rabbis, Yeshiva University
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I Visited The Temple Mount In 2000
I walked around and inside the Dome of the Rock when I was in Israel in 2000. From the Jewish Press: "The rabbanim are not talking halacha," Rabbi Moshe Tendler told The Jewish Press. "They’re issuing a political statement." Last … Continue reading
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