Airbnb: Why I Disagree
Rabbi Shafran has a good point. The crux of the matter, indeed, is that the two of us, friendship aside, employ very different definitions of anti-Semitism. Rabbi Shafran prefers his definition, he tells us,...
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Open Orthodoxy Update, Parshas Miketz
From support of “alternative lifestyles” contrary to Torah to celebrating opposition to Israel, Open Orthodoxy continues to outdo itself — even hiring a PR firm to promote their departures from traditional Judaism.
Airbnb is Anti-Semitic
I rarely disagree with my good friend Rabbi Avi Shafran, even privately. Public disagreement between us is rarer then good single malt being left unfinished at a high-end kiddush. Friends, it must be time...
Maybe There’s a Reason the Rabbi Did Not Make the Rabbinate’s List
The Rabbanut just released its list of approved batei din in the Diaspora for geirus. The list has some quite obsolete data and some other perhaps unexpected inclusions, but its issuance is an overall...
Returning Home to Auschwitz
If anyone can add more prose or more tears to the story of Auschwitz, it isn’t me. I’m on my way back from a few days in the Killing Fields, thanks to one of...
What Do They Study At Yeshivas?
By Elon Gilad Roughly one in six Israeli Jewish men aged 20-24 is a full-time student at a Jewish academy or yeshiva. In fact, more Israeli men are studying in yeshivas and kollels (Jewish...
Don’t Be So Quick To Dismiss Critical Thinking and An Orderly Environment
By Rabbi Shaya Karlinsky While I do not live in Beit Shemesh, I am privileged to have over one hundred twenty alumni families who have studied with us at Shapell’s and Midreshet Rachel over...
Rabbi Farber: Rabbi Lau is on the Mark
Rabbi Seth Farber, director of the ITIM organization, has been an outspoken, long-term critic of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate. Please click here to read my response to Rabbi Farber’s new critique of Rabbi David...
After Beit Shemesh: What Has Changed, What Hasn’t, and What Shouldn’t
You’d think that they were talking about the much-touted red wave of the US elections. In the aftermath of the Beit Shemesh mayoral upset, all sorts of pundits are weighing in about why thousands...
Enemies, Enemies Everywhere
“Notorious anti-gunner George Soros joins anti-gun billionaires Steyer and Bloomberg. There is no end to how much they’ll pay to push their elitist agenda on Americans.” Thus tweeted the National Rifle Association three days...
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