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May A Convert Serve On A Bait Din For Conversion?

From Hirhurim: May a Convert Serve on a Bet Din for Conversion: A Short Halachic Review, Some Halachic Thoughts of My Own and a Concluding Halachic Remark Guest post by Rabbi Michael J. Broyde In a Op-Ed in The Jewish … Continue reading

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What Did The Rambam Really Think About Judaism?

Joel Rich writes: [Some] SHIURIM are Pay to download: link (look under sages or author ) Dr. Kenneth Hart Green – Did Maimonides Hide What He Really Thought About Judaism? Did the Rambam purposely hide deeper intent? (Strauss) True philosophy … Continue reading

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Torah ownership dispute goes to Superior Court in Los Angeles

I covered this story two weeks ago. Duke Helfand writes in today’s Los Angeles Times: A rancorous legal fight over the rightful ownership of four Torahs has spilled from religious to civil courts in Los Angeles, with the widow of … Continue reading

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Israeli Election Post-Mortem

Gadi Pickholz from the Israel Fathers Advocacy Rights Foundation emails: An analysis of the true winners and losers the election, and the implicit trends they represent: 1) Bibi Netanyahu, Livni and Leiberman, and to a lesser extent Barak, have garnered … Continue reading

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Rabbi Michael Broyde On Rabbi Haskel Lookstein’s Appearance In A Church For The President’s Inauguration

Rabbi Michael Broyde writes: Thus a Jew may join the government service and wear gentile clothes every day — day in and day out for decades violating a Torah prohibition! — so that when the day comes that he can … Continue reading

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