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Friday, December 16, 2016

Trump throws a Twitter Fit One Day After Vanity Fair Lambastes His Restaurant

NPR One day after Vanity Fair printed a highly critical piece about one of his restaurants, President-elect Donald Trump escalated his ...

Thursday, December 15, 2016

The ideal woman: The righteous women of Egypt - Why the Jews were redeemed from Egypt

In trying to understand the Torah views of what the ideal woman is, one critical source is what woman have been praised for by our Sages. S...

Vayishlach 74 Autonomy – the Key to Character Education by Allan Katz

Allan Katz During the night preceding the meeting between Jacob- Ya'akov and his brother Esau, a confrontation takes place betwee...

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Trump's bullying continues: Department of Energy refuses to reveal names of climate scientists to Trump

C.S. Monitor The Department of Energy (DOE) has refused to give the individual names of workers associated with work on climate change ...

The unfortunate case of Meir and Lonna Kin - Perspective of Rav Gestetner

The Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded the U.S.

NY Times When Special Agent Adrian Hawkins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation called the Democratic National Committee in September...

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Two haredi sex-abuse suspects live in capital without restriction

Jerusalem Post If two men accused of sexual molestation and sodomy against minors were living freely in your neighborhood for three mon...

Monday, December 12, 2016

Teacher from Beitar Illit convicted of molesting 3 students

Kikar HaShabbat בית המשפט המחוזי בירושלים הרשיע הבוקר (ראשון) את משה אהרון ליסון, תושב ביתר עילית בן 34, בביצוע מעשים חמורים בנערים שאותם...

Is women's subordinate position obligatory, the optional ideal or temporary?

Lehrhaus Blog "She Should Carry Out All Her Deeds According to His Directives:" A Halakhah in a Changed Social Reality ...

Sunday, December 11, 2016

Rav Moshe Feinstein's views on Feminism O.C. 4:49

Concerning the Feminist Movement (translation is copyrighted) Igros Moshe (O.C. 4:49):Question: Concerning the international Feminis...

Did Russia interfere with U.S. elections? Trump - doesn't need facts. He truly believes that he knows more than the CIA

Washington Post The simmering distrust between Donald Trump and U.S. intelligence agencies escalated into open antagonism Saturday af...

Saturday, December 10, 2016

Kaminetsky-Greenblatt Heter: Who should be honored with sandek for the mamzer?

There have been rumors circulating Philadelphia about the birth of a mamzer. Since both R Kaminetsky and R Greenblatt have accepted...

Police arrest R' David Harrison on charges of rape at a Jerusalem seminary

Haaretz Jerusalem police arrested a 60-year-old local rabbi on Wednesday on suspicion of raping a 14-year-old student several years ago a...

Russian Hackers Acted to Aid Trump in Election, U.S. Says

NY Times American intelligence agencies have concluded with “high confidence” that Russia acted covertly in the latter stages of the pr...

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