Author: Yaakov Menken

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Faux Mitzvahs

A reporter called our office this week, looking for someone to reflect on the phenomenon of Faux Mitzvahs. For the heretofore blissfully ignorant, a “Faux Mitzvah” is a party thrown by non-Jewish parents on...

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Behold Your G-d?

The Jews for Jesus have come to Baltimore, as part of a multi-year campaign to blanket every major Jewish population center (outside Israel). Predictably and understandably, our local Jewish community is up in arms....

Aftermath of a Murder

As you may have heard, a 21-year-old British student of the Mirrer Yeshiva Jerusalem was murdered Wednesday evening by an Arab terrorist in the Old City of Jerusalem. He was to be married in...

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Priceless

Recently, my wife and I took our kids to a theme park for younger children. I made two observations — besides how expensive it is to take a family with several children to even...

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Judaism without Jews?

An interesting article in the Jerusalem Post, from the director of an outreach center in Rana’ana, Israel, discusses the rebuilding of Jewish institutions in European communities whose Jewish populace was essentially wiped out. He...

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Beat the Drum while Rome Burns

“They’ve Got Rhythm,” says the article, accompanied by a large photo of participants in a Jewish drum circle. It dominates the front page of the Washington Jewish Week, and runs for several additional pages....

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A Rosh Yeshiva on Disengagement

[This is the second time in as many entries that I find myself posting shortly after another who is greater in chochmah (wisdom), who wrote something that everyone should see. I just hope that...

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Truth in Announcing

This morning, President George Bush performed a “recess appointment,” bypassing the Senate confirmation process and sending John Bolton to the United Nations. The politics of this could be discussed ad nauseum, and preferably not...

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Getting it Exactly Wrong

Several days ago, Rabbi Adlerstein commented regarding the deleterious effects of television, and wrote that children whose classmates were free of its influence could perceive the difference between themselves and other children even in...

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