What Is Wrong With This Picture?
Watch this video at your own peril. It will be painful. You will see young, happy Israelis. They are exuberant, articulate, and full of confidence. They seem pretty clean-cut. No tattoos or piercings or...
Category: Religion
Schorsch’s Problem Isn’t Orthodox Jews
Reading Jonathan Schorsch’s latest salvo in his debate with Rabbi Shafran, I can only say that I am struck by how incredibly disingenuous he is. He is marketing a particularly virulent hatred, while piously...
At Whom Do We Point Fingers?
When I posted my response to David Ellenson’s latest anti-Orthodox diatribe, I said that Rav Mordechai Eliyahu’s speculation that the Holocaust might have been caused, in spiritual terms, by the old Reform Judaism was...
Let My Scientists Go
Back on April 13, in the spirit, perhaps, of the Passover then just past, The New York Times editorialized about the need to “free” something from the “chains imposed” upon it. The sentence’s subject...
History, Historians and How Not to Approach History
by Steve Brizel I don’t like to react to accusations, statements and articles by heterodox scholars. They have no halachic or hashkafic significance to me. I also believe that the evidence on the ground...
Sorry, Rabbi Ellenson, but it’s not Hatred
The President of Hebrew Union College has written his latest screed denouncing the Orthodox, and, just to be sure the article is as inflammatory as possible, either he or the Forward’s editors have entitled...
A Charedi Majority, with Buying Power
The Jerusalem Post reports that “every fourth baby born in Israel is haredi and so is 52% of the Jewish population under 18 year old.” Yay for the charedim, right? Well, I was scared...
Kosher Gym
The Washington Post has an article on Jerusalem’s “Kosher Gym,” which has separate hours for men and women and doesn’t have “MTV-tuned televisions and piped-in hip-hop.” The Post doesn’t get everything right, of course....
Women Against Capitalism
The case against the Egged Bus Company’s “Mehadrin Lines” is moving forward and in the news. I think it deserves its own comment thread, independent of the plagiarism complaints against one of the parties....
Amen to Ahavat Yisrael
In a Jerusalem Post opinion piece, Dr. Jonathan Schorsch calls me a “clever fellow” whose “handwringing” over the hatred I’ve encountered aimed at Orthodox Jews is “somewhat posed, if not disingenuous.” Dr. Schorsch can...
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