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When I Grow Up, Should I be a Chasid(a) or a Misnaged(es)? - An optional shiur on a day on which school was canceled because of flooding in the building. Below is an AI summary. I am sure there are typos. *Girls' S...
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STOCK UP ! HELLMANS MAYONAYSE AS LOW AS $2.27 - *This post may contain affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.* Clip the %20 coupon on the Hellmann's Real Mayonnaise R...18 hours ago
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GOP Lawmaker Files Resolution to End $3.8 Billion Aid to Israel - A Republican congressman known for his strong support of Israel has introduced a resolution urging the United States to end its annual military aid package...23 hours ago
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We Don't Need No Education - This morning at the Israeli Democracy Institute conference Naftali Bennett took an interesting campaign stance. Bennett said, "If I will be elected Prime M...1 day ago
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Satmar Hachnusas Sefer Torah - Lag Beomer '26 - Thousands of Satmar Chassidim, led by the Satmar Rebbe Rav Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, participating in a massive Hachnosas Sefer Torah in honor of RASHBI on L...
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Jewish leaders say Belgium’s prosecution of circumcision is antisemitic - Dozens of European Jewish leaders, joined by Israeli and American diplomats, decried Antwerp prosecutors who plan to charge two Jewish men with performing ...2 days ago
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The AI Age Is Today’s Iron Age - by R. Gil Student I. AI as a Human Tool Lately, people are rightly debating the moral and philosophical questions raised by Artificial Intelligence (AI). W...3 days ago
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Beyond BT on Substack: A Home for Every Jew on the Journey - Every Jew is somewhere on a Jewish journey. Some are just beginning. Some have been at it for decades. This site, Beyond BT, has been a home for Jews on ...6 days ago
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The Silent Crown - Noch a Bissel Two merchants traveling to Memel found themselves sharing the road with a quiet, simply dressed Jew. They mocked him the entire journey — his...1 week ago
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Quiz Answers; Response to Criticism; Rav Schwab Writes to the Rogochover - Quiz Answers; Response to Criticism; Rav Schwab Writes to the Rogochover Marc B. Shapiro 1. Let me begin with the riddles from my last post here. A. Where ...1 week ago
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Extended Family – Saying What Mishpacha Can’t - Preface and First Installment Mishpacha Magazine is one of the most important contributions to Anglo-charedi life in the last decades. There. I’ve said. ...2 weeks 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...10 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...13 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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