Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Danish Haircuts - Gender Equality vs Commonsense

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Reuters        Denmark, which like its Nordic neighbors prides itself on promoting equal treatment for men and women, is taking gender ...
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Monday, January 21, 2013

Teaching Torah to gentiles | Rav Aharon Kahn | Orthodox Union

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Audio mp3 Rav_Kahn_Sheets_-_Shiur_22.pdf   Content Description: Teaching Torah to gentiles. Analysis of commentaries on gemara Chagigah...
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Sunday, January 20, 2013

Weberman: 10 more victims reported/ Sentencing Tuesday

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NY Daily News She wasn't the only one. Nechemya Weberman, the unlicensed Hasidic counselor slated to be sentenced Tuesday for sexu...
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Nodah B'Yehuda & Kabbala - private & public view by Rabbi Dr. David Katz

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The follow is an excerpt from Rabbi David Katz' doctoral dissertaion on the Nodah B'Yehuda. Rabbi Katz is a rav in Baltimore an...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Kabbala & Prof Scholem: Ask no questions

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For those who want to understand the important differences between an academic study of Kabbalah and the real thing - there is an interes...
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Rav Kook suggested studying kabbala in Telz Yeshiva

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Making of a Godol page 979 . Sometime after the Hasman tenure - probably before R' Katz took the post and certainly before R' Luf...
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Egyptian president is anti-Semite - anyone suprised?

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NY Times    Nearly three years ago, a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood delivered a speech urging Egyptians to “nurse our children and o...
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Zohar's concerns about marrying a widow? - Rav Sternbuch

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Rav Sternbuch( 4:279): Should one avoid marrying a widow? This that you ask regarding marrying a widow, we find in the holy Z...
Monday, January 14, 2013

R' Amnon Yitzchok says Rav Ovadiya Yosef faked stroke

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kikarhashabat ר' אמנון יצחק ממשיך במתקפה חסרת תקדים נגד תנועת ש"ס המונהגת על ידי מרן פוסק הדור רבי עובדיה יוסף . כמו בשיע...
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האדמו"ר מביאלה בני-ברק חויב לשלם יותר מ-3 מיליון שקלים לבנק ירושלים

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BHOL האדמו"ר מביאלה-בני ברק חויב לפני שבועיים לשלם יותר מ-3 מיליון שקלים לבנק ירושלים. זאת לאחר שהתברר כי היה שותף למרמה נגד הבנק....
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"Rabbi" used courts to force his sons into Chareidi school

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JPost With a soft smile and two young boys in tow, a mild-mannered Moshe Aryeh Friedman appeared undeserving of his reputation as the s...
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Breaking engagement when she doesn't love him - Rav Sternbuch

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Rav Sternbuch (4:277): Dealing  with a broken engagement Question : I received a letter regarding a woman who had broken her engage...
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Sunday, January 13, 2013

Rav Hirsch's attitude towards Kabbala - Rav Elias

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The following comments by Rav Joseph Elias appeared in  Jewish Action Magazine 1996 as a response to Rav Shlomo Danziger's review of Ra...
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Rav Hirsch equates Rambam & Mendelson - what is authentic Judaism?

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While there are some of my readers who would exclude Zohar from authentic Judaism - we find that Rav S. R. H. rejected the hashkofa of the ...
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