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‘Can Anyone Grow Up To Be (Shul) President?’

I get off my sickbed Shabbos afternoon and go to this lecture. Last year, a Young Israel shul hired a graduate of the most left-wing Orthodox yeshiva (Chovevei Torah) — as its assistant rabbi. A few months later in response, … Continue reading

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Is Chabad A Personality Cult?

Chabad is so far out of the Jewish mainstream that most Orthodox rabbis don’t waste their ammunition attacking it, just as they don’t spend much time anymore attacking the Reform and Conservative streams of Judaism. Here’s an exception.. From shmais.com: … Continue reading

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YU’s Rosh Yeshiva Jokes About Shooting Israel’s Prime Minister If He Withdraws From Jerusalem

Nat Barnat writes on Jewschool: Last Wednesday, Rabbi Herschel Schachter, a Rosh Yeshiva at YU, was giving a class to young Americans at Yeshivat HaKotel in Jerusalem. At some point, the class was opened up to questions, and in response … Continue reading

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A Hillel For Our Times

  ????? ????? Doron Maharta Z"L   The oldest (age 26) among the 8 Yesivah student who were massacred last week at M’rkaz HaRav: He wanted to be a Rabbi and studied at M’rcaz HaRav any free moment he had from the army. … Continue reading

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