Let’s Not Institutionalize Mediocrity
[This post is a response to a comment by Dr Meir Shinnar to a previous post.] No, no, a thousand times no. We do not misunderstand. And we do not challenge the fact that...
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Preaching to a Very Mixed Choir
What do you tell a gathering of clerics, when they give you about a minute, and others can be expected to offer some PC drivel? Speaking at the World Summit Of Religious Leaders Forum...
Two on Rubashkin
I was sent the article, “Is A Life Sentence for Iowa Kosher Butcher Disproportionate Justice?” Not knowing much about “The Cutting Edge News,” a few clicks led to “Rubashkin Sentence Must Be Fair—Not Shocking,”...
The View from Nebraska
Sometimes it takes an outsider to accurately describe the state of affairs and put things in perspective.
Gender Agenda of the RCA
The Orthodox Rabbinical Council of America met this week and on the agenda was gender. This reminded me of another conference of professionals, the Arizona Engineers’ Society (l’havdil) which I attended as a civil...
Holocaust/Independence Day nexus that can perplex us
TO sit /stand/walk/be silent/ recite Psalms/ study? These are the choices you have to make if you are in Israel on Holocaust Remembrance Day which the government in 1951 established the week after Pesach,...
Of Rabas and Maharats
I’ve held my silence for weeks about the Maharat issue, mostly because I have felt that it is so critical an issue, that it deserved a magisterial treatment by someone in a higher place,...
The Elephant and the Jewish Community
Assuming that a group stereotype is a group description is the essence of prejudice.
Just because its the right thing to do
I saw something remarkable as I came out of shul the morning before Purim. By the nearby garbage bin, the founder of the shul was throwing out a bunch of soppy tzedakah flyers, which...
Something For Everyone
The ongoing debate on Cross-Currents is such a collection of apples and oranges, that we could start a whole blessed fruit store. Everyone is talking right past everyone else. [Disclaimer: I am personally friendly...
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