{"id":12768,"date":"2009-11-12T14:47:21","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T22:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=12768"},"modified":"2009-11-12T14:51:56","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T22:51:56","slug":"who-is-a-jew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=12768","title":{"rendered":"Who Is A Jew?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hirhurim.blogspot.com\/\">From Hirhurim<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Israel displays ancient coins: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5g94CMEEX6ZfpBkriA3y1z0qpBDXwD9BTH3CO0\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Boxer studying to be a rabbi: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/11\/sports\/11boxer.html?_r=1&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=rabbi&amp;st=cse\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>When is a rabbi not a rabbi?: <a href=\"http:\/\/riverdalepress.com\/full.php?sid=10518&amp;current_edition=2009-11-12\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1890s style back in fashion: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/12\/fashion\/12CODES.html?8dpc\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Protests expected against Intel&#8217;s opening its Jerusalem office on Shabbos: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1257770048772&amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Forward encourages investigating the compensation at non-profits: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forward.com\/articles\/118775\/\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Chairites pay more attention to small donors: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/12\/giving\/12CIVIC.html?hp\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is a new issue of <em>Kol Hamevaser: The Jewish Thought Magazine of the  Yeshiva University Student Body<\/em> on the topic of &quot;Family and Community.&quot; The  whole issue is available here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kolhamevaser.com\/\">link<\/a>.  Also, those who would like to subscribe to automatically receive a PDF version  of new editions of the paper should send an e-mail to <a href=\"mailto:kolhamevaser@gmail.com\">kolhamevaser@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Modern Orthodox Response to Orthopraxy<\/strong> by Eli Putterman<\/li>\n<li><strong>Prayer: A Call for Philosophical Inquiry<\/strong> by Sarit Bendavid<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rabbinic Leadership Reexamined by Alex Luxenberg <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><strong>On the Virtue of Followership: <em>Ein Melekh be-Lo Am<\/em><\/strong> by Noah  Cheses<em>&quot;Am le-Badad Yishkon:&quot;<\/em> Must the Singular Nation Always Reside  Alone?<\/strong> by Nicole Grubner<\/li>\n<li><strong>An Interview with Rabbi Yaakov Neuberger<\/strong> by Staff<\/li>\n<li><strong>Be Not Overly Modest: <em>Tseni&#8217;ut<\/em> and the Inability to Speak About  Sex<\/strong> by Emmanuel Sanders<\/li>\n<li><strong>An Interview with Mrs. Shani Taragin: Part One<\/strong> by Staff<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Shemirat Negi&#8217;ah<\/em> and Reality<\/strong> by Nathaniel Jaret<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reality Check: <em>Lo Tikrevu le-Gallot Ervah<\/em> and <em>Shemirat  Negi&#8217;ah<\/em><\/strong> by Shaul Seidler-Feller<\/li>\n<li><strong>Musar&#8217;s Incomplete Victory<\/strong> by Rabbi Yosef Blau<\/li>\n<li><strong>&quot;<em>A Yid iz Geglaychn tzu a Seyfer Toyre<\/em>&quot;<\/strong> by Rabbi Joseph B.  Soloveitchik<\/li>\n<li><strong>Don&#8217;t Read This Essay<\/strong> by Reuven Rand<\/li>\n<li><strong>Beginning the Conversation: A Review of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks&#8217; Weekly  Readings of <em>Be-Reshit<\/em><\/strong> by Shlomo Zuckier<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oldest Member writes: I find it amazing that the &quot;Who is a Jew&quot; article is the second most e-mailed NY  Times article, according to their website.<\/p>\n<p>Two observations: (1) The  Times really is the house organ of the Jews. (2) Even secular Jews care about  this issue. I don&#8217;t think there are enough religious Jews among Times readers to  make the story #2.<\/p>\n<p>NACHUM LAMM POSTS: The funniest part of the British story is that instead of admitting non-Jews,  the school has essentially gotten around it by limiting enrollment (as it had  not been before) to Orthodox kids. So the result has been more limited  enrollment than before. Congratulations to the courts for screwing things up  even more, but then that&#8217;s what they do best.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie, do you think the  US courts can&#8217;t order yeshivot around? Of course they can. Have you never seen  those &quot;non-discriminating&quot; notices in papers? In any event, separation or not,  this is clearly against British traditions. But tradition, of course, means  nothing to leftists.<\/p>\n<p>The &quot;body&quot; of Steinsaltz is really just a translation, while Artscroll&#8217;s is  almost a running shiur.<\/p>\n<p>I found it cute when, in an article in the New  York Times announcing the completion of Artscroll, there was a picture of R&#8217;  Scherman with a Steinsaltz on his desk.<\/p>\n<p>Steinsaltz takes into account facts of history, realia, science, geography and  so on from &quot;external&quot; sources that Artscroll ignores. Take the references to  &quot;Sunday people&quot; in Avoda Zara (learning it now) that Artscroll simply cites  Rishonim as referring to some Babylonian sect when, obviously (see the context  etc.), it is referring to Christians.<\/p>\n<p>So if you want to understand the  Gemara as traditionally learned, Rishonim and all, Artscroll is for you.  (Although Steinsaltz has that as well.) If you want more factual correctness-  including different girsaot and so on- take Steinsaltz. (Although, again,  Artscroll has that, the Hebrew, interestingly, more than the English.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Hirhurim: Israel displays ancient coins: link Boxer studying to be a rabbi: link When is a rabbi not a rabbi?: link 1890s style back in fashion: link Protests expected against Intel&#8217;s opening its Jerusalem office on Shabbos: link The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=12768\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4002],"tags":[19869,19867,19868,19866,9461,13917],"class_list":["post-12768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hirhurim","tag-ancient-coins","tag-british-traditions","tag-fashion-link","tag-jerusalem-office","tag-religious-jews","tag-who-is-a-jew"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12775,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12768\/revisions\/12775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}