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IRAN STRIKES ON HOLD? Trump Weighs Delaying New Attacks as Saudi Arabia and Turkey Urge Restraint - President Donald Trump is weighing whether to postpone another round of American military strikes against Iran, with the decision potentially depending on ...4 hours ago
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Encountering A Miraculous Survivor - by R. Ephraim Glatt, Esq. Question: Does one recite a b’rachah upon seeing someone who is famous for miraculously surviving a disaster? Short Answer: The M...7 hours ago
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Rafi Biton - Live from jerusalem "Hineini" - Opening medley at the Sultan's Pool Amphitheater, in Yerushalayim. סולנים: אביחי אדל עקיבא וילמרסדורף יונתן זילברשטיין
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365-day low price Trouble Board Game JUST $5! - *This post may contain affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.* At the time of posting the Hasbro Gaming Trouble Board ...
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Born First, Second Best - We know the story. Two brothers were born on the same day, only moments apart.2 days ago
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Rischa D'Araisa Season 14 Episode 12: G.O.P. Wipeout: Orthodoxy's Disappointment and Recalibrating US-Israel relations - [image: Rischa D'Araisa-Season 14-Episode 12-G.O.P. Wipeout-Orthodoxy's Disappointment and Recalibrating US-Israel relations] Play EpisodeDownloa...
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What Went Wrong? - The description of the end of HaTzibur HaHaredi’s (HH) election campaign might have been borrowed from one of the most famous lines in T.S. Eliot’s The H...1 week ago
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Speaking to an Empty Shul: Torah, Crisis, and the Jurisprudence of Religious Leadership - There are many books that emerged from COVID; few will matter ten years from now. Rabbi Yehuda Halpert’s Speaking to an Empty Shul: Timeless Lessons from U...1 week ago
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Hug Your Neighbor Like Yourself - 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 avoi...3 months ago
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I finally wrote something worth sharing - https://open.substack.com/pub/shimonsteinmetz/p/ve-heishiv-leiv-avos-al-banim-ve4 months ago
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Sign Up to Our Newsletter! - Redux: adjective – resurgence; refers to being brought back, restored, or revived; something familiar presented in a new way. Not to see what no one else h...5 years ago
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Lag Baomer and Chinuch -ל”ג בעומר ומצות חינוך - 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 ...7 years ago
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Dvar Torah - Titzave - Rabbi Yitzchok Wolpin - 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...7 years ago
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R' Gil Student's Overview of the Esoteric Vs. Harmonistic Debate and Dr. Slifkin (Corrected Link) - Just before Pesach, I came across Rabbi Gil Student's Overview of the two vastly disparate approaches to the Rambam. Here is his basic outline of the two...
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Tikun Olam vs. Tikun Hameuvas - Many bloggers ostensibly go into blogging to participate in Tikun Olam. They see suffering and write to diminish it, they observe injustice and post t...11 years ago
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Why Do Orthodox Women Need Female Yoatzot? - 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 ...11 years ago
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TTT :: Sois Osis • Dovid Gabay - 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...12 years ago
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Signing Off - 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...14 years ago
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A description of, and conversation with the great R' Yisroel Moshe Chazan - Following is a passage from "Nach Jerusalem" by Ludwig Frankl (pg. 4 of translation): I reached, after walking a considerable distance, the stately house o...15 years ago
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This Blog Has Moved - After a great get-together last night, we are ready to move the blog to a new format that has more functionality and is more esthetically pleasing. Please ...
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