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Friday, February 3, 2012
Ex-haredim to sue State for damages resulting from not being given basic core courses
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YNET Will the State of Israel be forced to pay for missing core studies? Dozens of former ultra-Orthodox men and women are seeking to s...
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"Jewish Indiana Jones" confesses to being a fraud & thief
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NYTimes For years Rabbi Menachem Youlus, a self-described “Jewish Indiana Jones,” received plaudits from those captivated by his stories o...
Rabbi Ralbag reinstated as Amsterdam Chief Rabbi
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JPost The Orthodox Jewish community of Amsterdam reinstated its chief rabbi, Aryeh Ralbag, on Thursday after briefly suspending him last m...
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Thursday, February 2, 2012
"I Had Asperger Syndrome. Briefly" - The false promise of Mental Health diagnosis
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NYTimes FOR a brief, heady period in the history of autism spectrum diagnosis, in the late ’90s, I had Asperger syndrome. There’s an ed...
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“The Toxic Truth About Sugar”
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Time In an opinion piece called “The Toxic Truth About Sugar” that was published Wednesday in the journal Nature , Robert Lustig, Laura S...
Strengthening authority with the legend of the death of the Shagas Aryeh
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Jewish Review of Books hat tip to Hirhurim The great 18 th -century scholar Rabbi Aryeh Leib Ginsburg was not a shy critic. He excoriated...
Fischer: Israel's ultra-Orthodox must start working
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Haaretz The ultra-Orthodox have to start working, companies have to stop bilking their bondholders and home prices could wind up falling ...
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Bail set at $23M in ex-teacher's molestation case
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USA Today Bail for a former school teacher accused of taking bizarre photos of children in his classroom for a sexual thrill was raised ...
Failure to do background checks - $1 million embezzlement
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NYTimes For eight years, the woman worked in accounts payable for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, gaining the trust of her s...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Conversation between Chief Rabbi Sacks & Prof Sandel
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Judaism and Justice - A Conversation Between Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks and Professor Michael Sandel from Harvard Hillel on Vimeo .
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Should a Ger be Fearful of an Orthodox Conversion?
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This comment was just published to an older post Should your child marry a ger? under the name "concerned" 1) My husband and I ...
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Sunday, January 29, 2012
Inverse relationship between time spent multitasking on social programs & social problems
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CNN Tween girls who spend much of their waking hours switching frantically between YouTube, Facebook, television and text messaging are m...
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Attention deficit drugs are not effective in the long run
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NYTimes Attention-deficit drugs increase concentration in the short term, which is why they work so well for college students cramming fo...
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Saturday, January 28, 2012
Rabbi Pinto's Followers raise questions about Congressman’s Fund-Raising
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NYTimes Soon after he began running for Congress in 2009, Michael G. Grimm, a Staten Island Republican, needed to convince party leaders i...
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