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...
Category: Religion
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,...
The Elephant and the Jewish Community
Assuming that a group stereotype is a group description is the essence of prejudice.
Why the Antipathy?
This piece was originally written as a response to Rabbi Landesman’s of last night, but I think my point is important enough to be worth posting separately. I believe he has conflated two entirely...
Sounds of Silence
I’ve been following with interest the back-and-forth between two veteran Torah activists who both have done so much for other Jews over their careers, R. Yaakov Menken and R. Dovid Landesman, and I’m amazed...
Emanuel: Further Reading
Having now spoken both with “RG” and Rabbi Pesach Zaide, the latter being a very involved parent working with the Beis Yaakov HaChasidi of Emanuel, I have enough additional information that it’s worth an...
Rav Gedalia Anemer, zt”l
We must transmit the sad news that Rav Gedalia Anemer, Rav of Young Israel Shomrei Emunah of Silver Spring, MD for over half a century, passed away shortly before 8 AM this morning. The...
Emanuel: The Other Side of the Story
Denial that problems are being addressed, and exaggerating and falsifying the problems, are no less wrong that ignoring the problems.
The Tea Partiers and Us
Successful tactics used by the media to discredit those whom they don’t like — with surprising success. Have you been fooled?
The Artificial Divide
Reform Judaism Blog: The commonly held view of the polarized division between Orthodox and non-Orthodox is in fact far from accurate. Those who become Orthodox are not being tricked — they are finding something they’ve been looking for.
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