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Like Hollywood, the blogosphere can be a place where no good deed goes unpunished. When I wrote my original piece about Jack Abramoff’s hat, I thought I was being generous to him by speculating...
Like Hollywood, the blogosphere can be a place where no good deed goes unpunished. When I wrote my original piece about Jack Abramoff’s hat, I thought I was being generous to him by speculating...
Last Friday marked the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Being somewhat partial to his music, it seemed appropriate to come up with something positive and Jewish about him. One thing...
“Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.” A variation of Voltaire’s famous maxim might be that unequivocal public criticism is the price the virtuous community must pay to vice. David Klinghoffer challenged me...
The sad story of a contemporary writer critical of the Vaad Hatzala and its Holocaust rescue work took a bizarre turn last week. Cross-Current readers get the inside story first. January 17, the anniversary...
In an earlier post, I published the sharp but friendly remarks that we traded, on camera (so to speak) and off. I took up the challenge to offer a halachic defense of the permissibility...
What started as a poorly constructed blog entry of mine has morphed into an ongoing exchange with David Klinghoffer. Some of it has been public; some in the form of private correspondence between us. ...
That rabbi being me, a week ago. A good part of my responsibilities at the Simon Wiesenthal Center (which is where I am when not at Yeshiva of Los Angeles or Loyola Law School...
When both my wife and Jonathan Rosenblum think I left room for some serious misunderstanding of my position, I know I’m in trouble. Allow me to explain what I do and do not believe,...
If you ask me, they all got it wrong. He did not wear the hat to look more pious. Decades ago, the head of a large group within American Orthodoxy faced extremely serious charges...
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