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Jewish News
* Which married Orthodox LA pulpit rabbi has his ladies dress up as Yavneh school children? * The plaything of rabbis? The handover of Shannon Orand from Rabbi Tovia Singer To Rabbi Leib Tropper? * Hitler finds out Young Israel … Continue reading
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Rabbi Riskin & Rabbi Jesus
Here are some interesting letters to and from Rabbi Shlomo Riskin. In the first letter, dated March 26, 1991, Rabbi Riskin tries to hire Rabbi Baruch Lanner to recruit for him. Lanner would be great for bringing people through the … Continue reading
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Rescuing Chained Women
I remember discussing agunot eleven years ago at Aish HaTorah with Rabbi Aryeh Markman (in 2007 he described me as a "Torah weirdo" in the Jewish Journal) and he said it was just an excuse for people to bash Orthodox … Continue reading
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Tagged child custody issues, child custody rights, feminist legislation, rabbi shlomo amar, rabbi shlomo riskin, torah judaism
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Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Ripped As A ‘Colonialist Rabbi’
Philip Weiss blogs: The Washington Post reports on John McCain talking with Jewish American "leaders," including Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, who asks McCain "why he won’t ‘hammer’ Obama hard for [the Rev. Wright] association. Riskin, from Brooklyn, is a leading rabbi … Continue reading
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Modern Orthodox Rabbis Try To Run Around Israel’s Chief Rabbinate
From Haaretz: Orthodox rabbis from the United States and Israel intend to set up an Orthodox court system as an alternative to Israel’s rabbinical courts and to the rigorous norms for conversion to Judaism imposed on U.S. rabbis. Rabbi Marc … Continue reading
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Tagged chief rabbi shlomo amar, chief rabbinate, conversion crisis, rabbi shlomo amar, rabbi shlomo riskin, rabbinical council of america
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Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Says Give Agriprocessors A Chance
He writes to the Jerusalem Post: Uri Zedek is a burgeoning Orthodox social action group paralleling Maagalei Zedek in Israel. It insists that kashrut and yashrut, ritual concern and ethical sensitivity, go hand in hand. I am proud to … Continue reading
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As Rabbi Mordecai Gafni Turns
Marc has been at the front of every development in Modern Orthodoxy for 30 years. He has been an incarnation of the movement’s various twists and turns. He has the ability to merge with his favorite thinkers. Around 1980, Elazar … Continue reading
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Rabbi Mordecai Gafni Update
How come so many Jews employ multiple names? From The Awareness Center: Over the last few years various individuals have been monitoring Rabbi Mordechai Gafni’s where abouts. After fleeing Israel, Gafni took a brief respite in Boston, prior to moving … Continue reading
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