Thursday, May 23, 2013

Rav Sternbuch: Written psak to report Kolko to police

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Cautionary note: Even though in the case addressed in the letter there was a confession, Rav Sternbuch has told me that is not a necessa...
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Are physical attacks on innocent people by religious Jews - terrorism? by Rabbi Yair Hoffman

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Five Towns Jewish Times    How very horrifying it was to see video footage of the Tsarnaev brothers gleefully place down a bomb that murd...
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Kolko debacle: How to look up to rabbis who support a confessed pedophile?

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Dear Rabbi Eidensohn,  Can you please help me? I went to a Rabbi for guidance about how to deal with my own anger agains...
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Rav Sternbuch's speech at a protest demonstration held on Isru Chag Shavuos

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  Atzeret Neged Giyus 
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Jordan Murray pleads not guilty to molesting two of his students

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KIRO TV   [includes video]  A former private school teacher has pleaded not guilty to charges of molesting two of his students. Polic...

Does early psychological intervention prevent or cause trauma?

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Scientific American      Devastating tornadoes have a lot in common with other major traumas, like life-threatening accidents, the Boston bo...

Problem of Convicted Sex Offenders: Where are they allowed to live?

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Monday, May 20, 2013

Female LGBT Reform rabbi married to a non-Jewish woman protests the Reform movement's prohibition against intermarried rabbinical students

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Forward    I am writing to urge you to reconsider the HUC-JIR requirement that all prospective rabbinical students sign an agreement tha...
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Match made in hell: Ami Popper weds mother of abused kids

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YNET    In a ceremony held Sunday in Jerusalem, Ami Popper , who is serving multiple life sentences for the murder of seven Palestinian...
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New Psak: cigarette smokers can't be witnesses

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NRG פסק הלכה של אב בין הדין בירושלים, הרב אליהו אברג'יל, קובע כי מעשנים פסולים לעדות, כך נקבע בפסק הלכה שפרסם בשנתון 'תחומין ל...
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Sunday, May 19, 2013

Mussar Movement was haskala - a man-based vision to revive religion

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In my investigation into the Seridei Aish's description of the Mussar Movement as "frum haskala", I have come back to my or...
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Al Dura is a Palestinian Hoax: Israeli government concludes al Dura was alive after gun battle

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YNET    The committee, formed in 2012, was first headed by now Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon , and concluded its inquiry recently ...
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Israeli economy doomed without Chareidim & Arab workforce participation

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Haaretz     The Israeli economy cannot thrive without ultra-Orthodox Jews and Israel's Arabs being more fully integrated into the work...
Saturday, May 18, 2013

Interview with the Brisker Rav: Rav Yisroel Salanter tried being a chassid

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This was published by Rabbi Leo Jung in Men of the Spirit page 210-211 *This interview, [by Pinehas Biberfeld] published first in ...
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