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Tag Archives: yeshiva student
This Week’s Torah Portion Is Pekudei (Exodus 38:21-40:38)
I discuss the weekly Torah portion with Rabbi Rabbs every Monday at 7pm PST on my live cam and YouTube. This week’s parasha is Pekudei. For the first time, we’re going to do Torah Talk Monday night at the House … Continue reading
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Tagged israelites, marriage god, parasha, rabbs, weekly torah portion, yeshiva student
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Ovadia Yosef’s Son Says Bachelors Over 20 Must Leave Jerusalem
Rabbi Steven Weil has a like-mind in the holy city. I wonder what I could do to convince the rabbis of my sturdy heterosexual inclinations? Just because I am almost 43 and never married… YNETNEWS reports: Ultra-orthodox bachelors over the … Continue reading
Posted in Dating, Jerusalem, Jews
Tagged eretz israel, hazon, inclinations, rabbi ovadia yosef, Rabbis, yeshiva student
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Lakewood Yeshiva Student Dies Of Percocet Overdose
Report: Lakewood, NJ – Hatzolah responded about 11:00am Shabbas morning to East End Avenue, for reports of a teenage boy who was unconscious and didn’t wake up, from a drug overdose. After Hatzolah trying to work on the child to … Continue reading
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Tagged drug overdose, hatzolah, lakewood nj, percocet overdose, yeshiva student
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The Miserable Jews
I just watched this cool 1998 movie starring Rabbi Yosef Blau as Inspector Javert and Rabbi Marc Winiarz as Jean Valjean. It was a thriller! Winiarz was imprisoned at age nineteen for stealing forbidden fourteen year old loving when he was a starving yeshiva … Continue reading
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Tagged daughter cosette, inspector javert, jean valjean, rabbi shlomo carlebach, rabbi yosef, yeshiva student
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Frightened By The Conversion Controversy
Frightened posts to Cross-Currents: Again, there is an issue in that the court abolished ALL of the giyur done by R. Druckman and R. Avi-Or. The apologeticists and attackers keep framing this debate in terms of extremes, in which a … Continue reading
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Tagged controversial cases, conversion controversy, female offspring, rsquo, yeshiva student, yeshivot
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