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The Signature You Never Saw
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The Other List In about two weeks we stand in judgment, and by now many of
us have some version of a list going — what we did wrong this year… what we
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Boy George Obligates the Fence-Sitters
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If you have spent the last three years sitting on the fence—watching what
has happened to the public image of Torah, disturbed by it, but unwilling
to do...
Hug Your Neighbor Like Yourself
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I went out to lunch with a friend a few weeks ago. We often talk about a
range of topics. Toward the end, we drifted into one we both knew we should
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Lag Baomer and Chinuch -ל”ג בעומר ומצות חינוך
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We recently read פרשת אמור אל הכהנים, where we are taught the important
lesson, להזהיר גדולים על הקטנים, that not only gedolim/adults are obligated
in the ...
Dvar Torah - Titzave - Rabbi Yitzchok Wolpin
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This week we are privileged to read the portion of Titzave. The portion
begins with the mitzvah of preparing proper olive oil in order to kindle
the Menor...
Tikun Olam vs. Tikun Hameuvas
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Many bloggers ostensibly go into blogging to participate in Tikun Olam.
They see suffering and write to diminish it, they observe injustice and
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Why Do Orthodox Women Need Female Yoatzot?
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Let's take a quick survey of the reasons given by Orthodox feminists for
the need to train female Yoatzot to answer questions specifically in the
realm of ...
TTT :: Sois Osis • Dovid Gabay
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So vanilla as to not even be terrible. It's just not...anything. Lyrics are
indiscernible, harmonies are haphazard, and yet, this tune almost escaped
being...
Signing Off
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When I first started blogging, it was before the Asifa. Post-asifa, there
arose the question whether I could (and should) continue. Consulting my
mentor, w...
This Blog Has Moved
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After a great get-together last night, we are ready to move the blog to a
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The last straw was a recent joint event with a Reform group at which their leaders extolled the importance of accepting intermarried Jews into the community and not judging them harshly.
“There was no precipitating event. This has been mulled by the Moetzes for many months,” Shafran wrote. “I suspect they held off as long as they could in good conscience, in the hope that the new movement might backtrack on some of its positions and statements but finally decided that that simply was not happening.”
only question is what took them this long. Did something happen recently that was the last straw?
ReplyDeleteAny way Eytan Kobre has been doing the grunt work on this, very capably IMO, for years.
...and Avrohom Gorimer, over at cross-currents.com
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DeleteThe last straw was a recent joint event with a Reform group at which their leaders extolled the importance of accepting intermarried Jews into the community and not judging them harshly.
ReplyDeleteHow long ago? Link?
ReplyDelete“There was no precipitating event. This has been mulled by the Moetzes for many months,” Shafran wrote. “I suspect they held off as long as they could in good conscience, in the hope that the new movement might backtrack on some of its positions and statements but finally decided that that simply was not happening.”
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