https://www.newsweek.com/remember-irs-scandal-it-was-fake-news-all-along-681674
Sunday, July 10, 2022
Remember the IRS Scandal? It was Fake News All Along
IRS targeting controversy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy
Lauren Boebert 'Genocide Squad' Abortion Comments 'Disgraceful': Dershowitz
LGBTQ couples to take advantage of ZOOM civil marriages ruling
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/356239
The Central District Court ruled in a precedent-setting decision that the State will be required to register as married Israeli citizens who married 'abroad' in a civil ceremony via ZOOM, even if they never physically leave Israel's borders, Reshet Bet reported.
According to the report, the State has the option of appealing to the Supreme Court. Should the Supreme Court uphold the ruling, the State will have no choice but to recognize these ZOOM marriages.
Friday, July 8, 2022
Israel Grants Residency Status to Rabbi Convicted of Child Sex Abuse
In 2002, Lanner was convicted of sexually abusing two teenage girls who were students in the 1990s at the Hillel Yeshiva High School in Ocean Township, New Jersey, where he was principal [https://www.jta.org/2002/10/11/ny/lanner-gets-7-year-prison-term]. An appeals court later dismissed one of two child endangerment charges against him [https://www.jta.org/2005/02/18/ny/split-ruling-on-lanner-appeal]. He was sentenced to seven years in prison, served nearly three years and was released on parole in early 2008.
US probes rare, intensive audits of Trump critics
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62088872
The news that both men were selected for an uncommon type of audit was first reported in the New York Times.
Individuals are supposed to be selected at random for the audit.
The Times calculated the odds of an individual being selected for the IRS's National Research Program in 2017 at about one in 30,000.
Thursday, July 7, 2022
The Militant Conservative Who Played the Long Game on Abortion
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/07/07/leo-brent-bozell-abortion-game-00044246
Pantheism
The Thought of Rav Kook- Lesson 17 Heresy
https://www.etzion.org.il/en/philosophy/great-thinkers/rav-kook/heresy
Coping with Modernity: An interview with Rabbi Emanuel Rackman
https://thejewishreview.org/articles/?id=184
A Call For The End Of Dishonest Jewish Outreach
https://www.jta.org/2012/06/07/ny/a-call-for-the-end-of-dishonest-jewish-outreach
Orthodox groups engaged in kiruv include the National Jewish Outreach Program, with events at 3,700 locations throughout North America (and nearly 40 nations); Chabad, with its more than 3,000 emissaries (shluchim) in 70 countries; and groups such as Aish HaTorah, JAM, Maimonides, and Ohr Somayach. Of course there are thousands of other professionals (across the ideological spectrum) at Kollels, Hillels, shuls, and schools also doing significant outreach work. There are so many responsible and ethical Orthodox outreach professionals in the field that we cannot let those who are more narrow and deceptive ruin the perception of the rest. Outreach professionals are often courageous leaving their comfort zone to engage others in the tradition in inconvenient ways. However, many have been very critical of some kiruv tactics, especially among the Hareidi, for refusing to acknowledge any opinion but their own and for not answering difficult questions. One critical blog quoted Rabbi Emanuel Rackman’s critique of this closed, fundamentalist mindset that can be found:
Wednesday, July 6, 2022
We are gradually becoming majority Charedi
The Kabbalah and Pantheism
How Is Chassidic Thought Distinct from Pantheism?
Rabbi Tzvi Freeman,