â–ª The Koren Mesoret Harav Kinot: A Modern Translation
â–ª Books of Interest: Rav Soloveitchik Kinot and Other Books About Prayer
â–ª 200 years old – but is Reform at a standstill?
â–ª Rabbi Amital laid to rest
â–ª ‘Modesty’ standard instituted in Sderot businesses
â–ª SALT Friday
â–ª R. Shmuel Kamenetsky supports Rabbi Ginzberg
â–ª R. Aharon Lichtenstein’s lecture on praying for R. Yehudah Amital’s health (Hebrew PDF)
â–ª Drug bust at Israel airport, Hasidic Jews arrested (time for another Tehillim gathering?)
â–ª The cost of being Jewish
▪ Rabbinic group’s resolution expands women’s role
â–ª Rabbis: ‘Don’t rent to foreign workers’
â–ª Times Square rabbi seeks America’s runaway kids
â–ª SALT Thursday
â–ª Halachically Speaking on worm-infested fish (an essay of mine is quoted in footnotes 46 and 52) (PDF)
â–ª Jewish (including Orthodox) LGBT leaders meet
â–ª Disaffected synagogue leaders push for change in Young Israel
â–ª ‘America Is Better Served By A Religiously Vibrant Christianity’ An Interview with Rabbi Daniel Lapin
â–ª Satmar protests in front of White House over Israeli digging of graves
â–ª New Young Israel advocacy
▪ Orthodox Rabbinical Group Outlines Women’s Roles as “Clergy†and More
â–ª R. Jeffrey Saks’ review in Tradition of biography of R. Ovadiah Yosef (PDF)
â–ª Jewish organizations protest UC president’s handling of reports of anti-Semitism
â–ª A hard hitting examination of Jews and baseball
â–ª Tradition and Its Discontents (new book by Shaul Stampfer)
â–ª SALT Wednesday
â–ª The Mossad
â–ª R. Malkiel Kotler denounces Hamodia eulogy of Dr. Bernard Lander (beginning of eulogy here: link)
â–ª Agreement reached in Chinuch Atzmai leadership battle
â–ª More secular Israelis take up Torah, Jewish studies
â–ª SALT Tuesday
â–ª Passion Play called more balanced
â–ª Red, White and Kosher
â–ª New conversion institute aims to spark halachic debate
â–ª R. Shlomo Aviner on Facebook’s problems
â–ª The Atheist vs. the Rabbi
â–ª SALT Monday
More on the “degrees looked down upon”: I once asked the department head of my graduate department what he looked for in recruiting faculty. He said that his first screen was to rule out anyone from any department that “had never produced anyone any good, ever” which was the majority of departments in my field!
“Lots of accredited schools offer degrees that are looked down upon. Accreditation is a really low standard”
The issue isn’t the low standards-education is not reserved for the Harvards etc=the issue is the misstatements of what actually is being taught.
A Yeshiva can be a rigorous program- but giving a degree as an American university for that program is as legitimate as giving a degree for studying ones teams football plays
Charlie, that’s rather running against the definition of Communism. Certainly there have been other areas with Communist ruling parties that haven’t been, strictly speaking, Communist states. (Nicaragua in the 80′s, for example. And pretty much any “Communist state” today allows private enterprise. China, Vietnam…even North Korea caved about a month ago.) Conversely, there have been socialist states not ruled by socialists, etc. etc.
Nu, anyway: With such great healthcare, why is your colleague working in the US? :-)