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Rabbi Shafran Responds

Rabbi Shafran sent me the following response to the comments on his article. I was pleased enough to get clearance from him to reprint a Jewish Observer article online (as compared to his Am...

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The Court’s Contempt

Prof. Albert Alschuler of the University of Chicago is blogging his reactions to the ID decision (as noted by Michael Hobson). Most of the Dover opinion says in effect to the proponents of intelligent...

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Can Conversion Save the Jewish People?

In the article from Reuven Hammer that I quoted last week, he criticizes the adherence to halachic standards of conversion with the following statement: This perversion of Judaism by placing unnecessary stumbling blocks before...

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Rabbi Avi Shafran on Intelligent Design

Hot off the presses (of this month’s Jewish Observer) is Rabbi Avi Shafran’s take on the Intelligent Design controversy. Some of his arguments you may have seen here before, but much else is new....

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Israel = Global Pollution?

It has just come to my attention that the Green Party has recently called for a boycott of the State of Israel. Here is the wording of the resolution: Green Party Resolution to Divest...

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More on the Intelligent Design Decision

A long and thoughtful comment to my earlier post about the Dover court decision on Intelligent Design begins: “I’m a molecular biologist at UCLA, and after linking here from slate I hope to offer...

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Getting It Right

Here’s a proposal anyone who believes in the value of Jewish education should agree with: the Jewish community should, as a priority, provide free schooling to every Jewish child. As Miriam Shaviv said, coming...

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