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Posts Along The Way
I read this book by Rabbi Gil Student over Shabbos. I don’t know much, but the book to me has a yeshivish feel, a Litvish feel, a right-wing Modern Orthodox sensibility. It feels like it was written by a baal … Continue reading
Posted in Hirhurim
Tagged baal teshuva, chasam sofer, gil student, prayer groups, wpgs, yeshivish
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The Rav Forbade Congregational Singing
In his part two lecture on Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer for Torah in Motion, Dr. Marc B. Shapiro says: “Congregational singing wasn’t even done in Germany. It was choir singing. It’s an American thing. It might be a development of the … Continue reading
Posted in Marc B. Shapiro, Orthodoxy, R. J. B. Soloveitchik
Tagged israel movement, Marc B. Shapiro, torah in motion, yeshivish, Young Israel
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Heshy Fried Live In The Hovel!
Heshy Fried operates FrumSatire.net. I hung out with Heshy for four hours Sunday night. (My 2011 video interview with Heshy.) Things started out in the hovel and then moved to Haifa restaurant on Pico Blvd. Luke: “Heshy, when you were … Continue reading
Posted in Dating, Heshy Fried, Orthodoxy, Sex
Tagged camp moshava, classic kid, hebrew day school, heshy, high school equivalency, one of those guys, orthodox background, orthodox jewish community, providence hebrew day school, providence rhode island, skater girls, stand up comedian, west end avenue, yeshivish
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The Shidduch (Matchmaking) Crisis
From Hirhurim: A survey of university presidents’ salaries: link Religious Zionists rabbis want kosher cellphone internet: link The new shidduch crisis: link An article on a few J-blogs: link NY Post reports on proposed solution to the Shidduch Crisis: link … Continue reading
Posted in Hirhurim
Tagged cradle robbers, men and the girls, poster posts, soloveitchik, university presidents, yeshivish
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Equality In Shul
I think people who feel secure with themselves find most shuls to have a large amount of social equality, about as much as is desirable. For those with a chip on their shoulders, Jewish life revolves around the rich, blah, … Continue reading
Posted in Hirhurim
Tagged blah blah, communal leader, economic circumstances, gil student, social inequality, yeshivish
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