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Conservative & Reform Jews find High Holidays boring 27 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
Tablet Magazine High Holiday services are a slog. OK, not at every synagogue, not all the time, not for everybody. But it’s true widely and often enough that most of you are nodding to yourselves. G...
Iron Dome has curbed Palestinian terror attacks 27 Aug 2013 | 01:03 am
Time Magazine No tour of Middle East conflict zones could be complete without a stop at Sderot, an Israeli town of 24,000 that stands uncomfortably close to the Gaza Strip. The rain of rockets out of...
Yeshiva University: Official abuse report released 26 Aug 2013 | 10:49 pm
Y.U. Abuse Report of Sullivan and Cromwell Dear Members of the Yeshiva University Community, Last December, in response to reports of past abuse at Yeshiva University High School for Boys, the ...
MK Dov Lipman interviewed by Rabbi Yair Hoffman 26 Aug 2013 | 10:48 pm
Five Towns Jewish Times Recently, MK Dov Lipman gave an interview with Arutz Sheva after a “peace talk meeting” sponsored by the Geneva Initiative. He said that some of the Arabs he had spoken to wh...
Man initiates adultery because of egotism 26 Aug 2013 | 04:18 pm
This discussion of adultery is presented before Rosh HaShanna as a way of understanding the nature of sin and consequently how to do teshuva. Adultery is used as a metaphor for the Jewish people betra...
Be on the Correct Side of This Issue! by Rabbi Efrem Goldberg 25 Aug 2013 | 09:36 pm
Rabbi Efrem Goldberg (senior rabbi of the Boca Raton Synagogue) gave permission to republish this letter with the link to his shul's webpage. This is an important letter. This time of the year, Rabbi...
Kosher Get Deposited but rejected by NY State Judge 25 Aug 2013 | 06:41 pm
Guest post: The following was sent to me anonymously: A NY Judge has rejected a Get deposited in a valid Bais Din as fulfilling the requirements of the NY Get Law on the grounds that the Bais Din ins...
Was marriage traumatic for children in Middle Ages? 25 Aug 2013 | 03:50 pm
In the course of discussing child abuse the issue of child brides has been brought up a number of times. While it is clear from Torah and Talmudic sources that a girl can be married while she is a chi...
Modern Orthodox leader condemns failure to criticize Rabbi Druckman & Rabbi Belsky 25 Aug 2013 | 12:42 pm
Jewish Week by Rabbi Heshie Billet, a former president of the Rabbinical Council of America, is spiritual leader of the Young Israel of Woodmere. The time for serious vigilance of child abuse in the...
Does a Mitzvah lead to another Mitzvah, or to a Sin? 23 Aug 2013 | 12:10 am
Guest Post from Eddie: Pirkei Avot (4: 2) . BEN AZZAI SAID: RUN TO [PERFORM] AN EASY PRECEPT, AS [YOU WOULD] IN [THE CASE OF] A DIFFICULT ONE,AND FLEE FROM TRANSGRESSION; FOR [ONE] PRECEPT DRAWS [I...
