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Trump: If Hamas Is Using Hostages As Human Shields, ‘ALL BETS ARE OFF’ - President Donald Trump issued a stern warning after reading reports that Hamas has brought hostages out of tunnels and placed them above ground in Gaza Cit...
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Hirhurim - Musings

Halachot Shonot - by R. Gidon Rothstein This Year’s Glimpse of Halachot Shonot of Aruch HaShulchan He-Atid For a while now, I make a practice of looking for overarching mess...
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Chaptzem Blog!

Jewish Family Fears London Doctor’s Antisemitism Influenced Their Disabled Son’s Treatment - In London, an investigation has started into a doctor after the family of a disabled Jewish boy uncovered her long trail of antisemitic social media writin...
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Toras Aba

GREAT FOR THE SUKKA! Marked down %40!! Outdoor Dining Set for 6 - At the time of posting the Outdoor Dining Set for 6, Outdoor Table and Chairs Set with Umbrella Hole, Patio Dining Sets, 7 Pieces HDPS Outdoor Furnitu...
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Gruntig!

OHAD & Eitan Katz - Keser - Ohad Moskowitz and Eitan Katz have released a new single, “Keser” (Crown), just in time for Rosh Hashanah. On this day, when Jews around the world crown Ha...
7 hours ago
Cross-Currents

Nitzavim – Putting a Hold on Gold - There is idol worship and there is idol worship. As Rav Elchonon Wasserman wrote, even today, when the urge to worship literal idols is absent, there are...
14 hours ago
Life in Israel

Quote of the Day - *Israel is in a sort of isolation.. We will increasingly need to adapt to an economy with autarkic characteristics [without foreign trade]. The word I most...
14 hours ago
YGB - יג"ב

Response to a Letter On Basic Issues in Yahadus (Judaism and Avodas Hashem) - *My answers are in bold. The material is more or less self explanatory.* Shalom Harav Bechhofer Shlit''a I have seen the profound divrei torah of the Ra...
18 hours ago
the Seforim blog

From Medina Raḥamim to Elul Seliḥot: Toward a Prehistory of Nocturnal Penitential Prayer - From Medina Raḥamim to Elul Seliḥot: Toward a Prehistory of Nocturnal Penitential Prayer Aton M. Holzer Shulamit Elizur, the undisputed doyenne of piyyut s...
1 day ago
Yaakov Astor's Blog

My Father’s Yarhzeit - This eulogy was delivered at my father’s funeral on 16 Elul 5764. OUR GOOD DEEDS SPEAK The great Jewish sage and saint of the last century, known as the Ch...
1 week ago
The partial view

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5 months ago
Beyond BT

Rethinking Introspection: A Healthier Approach to Mussar - At a friend’s daughter’s chasanah, I struck up a conversation with his son-in-law, a young and dynamic Rabbi. Wanting to understand his approach, I asked...
6 months ago
Geshmack Torah - Hot off the press

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...
4 years ago
On the Main Line

- Here's a piece in Hamelitz about a telegram from Mrs. Netziv, Rabbanit Batya Mirel (Epstein) Berlin, asking people to say tehillim for her husband, who was...
5 years ago
TREASURES OF ASHKENAZ

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 ...
6 years ago
כבוד התורה

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...
6 years ago
The Slifkin Challenge

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...
8 years ago
HaMavdil

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
Voice From The Wilderness

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 ...
10 years ago
A nigun a day. It's that simple.

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...
11 years ago
JEWISH MUSIC PLUS

Ari Goldwag - I'm Imperfect - A Cappella - Official Video -
11 years ago
Yeshivaman

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12 years ago
Haredi And Proud

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
אישים ושיטות

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...
14 years ago
Hirhurim - Musings

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 ...
15 years ago

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