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May 14, 2012 81 Comments
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▪ Bloomberg vs. the Rabbis ▪ Court rules Judaism, not place of birth, is grounds for Israeli citizenship ▪ Internet Kiosks A Boon In The Charedi Community ▪ Sheirut Leumi Officials Preparing to Enlist Chareidim ▪ As Pressure On Hynes Builds, New Revelations Of Rabbis’ Intimidation ▪ Ultra-Orthodox community in Brooklyn wrongly mistrusts justice system ▪ Facebook and Talmud ▪ Female Reform rabbi seated on religious council of Jerusalem suburb ▪ Internal Probe Clears...
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May 7, 2012 210 Comments
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▪ Bronx Teenager Knows Her Torah Trivia ▪ Measured Insularity Does Not A Monk Make ▪ Chief Rabbinate Instructs Hotels to Serve Meat Meal Shavuos Night ▪ History Behind Touro Synagogue ▪ Stadium Seating for Internet Morals ▪ Reverse birthright for terror victims ▪...
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April 30, 2012 294 Comments
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▪ Ask the Rabbi: Can a judicial court nullify a conversion? ▪ In Belgium, national rupture spreads to Jews ▪ Mixed Verdict In Shomrim Beating Case ▪ An Immoral Incentive ▪ Tell Your Children What You Think ▪ Surprise! There’s No Such Thing as...
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April 23, 2012
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▪ Coerced Get Redux ▪ Ultra-Orthodox Rabbis Raise $1.5 M for Massive ‘Jews Against the Internet’ Rally At Citi Field ▪ Going the Distance ▪ On Revealing Private Facebook...
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April 16, 2012
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▪ YUTorah Yom Ha-Atzma’ut To Go ▪ Beyond Church And State: School Vouchers And The Blaine Amendment ▪ Reconsideration of state aid to Jewish schools is welcome ▪ May...
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April 9, 2012
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▪ Without Fanfare, NYS Clarifies Child Abuse Reporting Regulations; Requires Yeshivas To Report ▪ The Stuttering Servant ▪ Only haredim allowed entry to Beersheba zoo ▪ Please don’t read...
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April 2, 2012
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▪ An archbishop’s impression of Yeshiva University learning ▪ Ask the Rabbi: How much matza must one eat? ▪ Passover Profiteering ▪ Manischewitz: It’s Not Just For Jewish Grandmothers Anymore...
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March 26, 2012
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▪ YU Torah Pesach to Go ▪ Shabtai: A voice that should be heard ▪ Oy, Morris, we hardly knew ye! ▪ Bringing Back Some Jewish Character on the...
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March 19, 2012
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▪ Jewish Communal Professionals in North America: A Profile ▪ Chief Rabbi Sacks pushed to rule on same-sex marriage ▪ Encyclopedic Wisdom: Brittannica and the Talmud ▪ Ultra-Orthodox Jews increasingly...
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March 12, 2012
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▪ Two Babies Sickened by Circumcision Rite ▪ Tolerance is a Double-Edged Sword ▪ Day School Leadership Meeting in NJ Demonstrates Unity ▪ Top names rule themselves out of ‘thankless’...
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March 5, 2012
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▪ Davening outside the box ▪ A Short History of Four Jewish Messiahs and Their Legacies ▪ King David’s Genes ▪ Ask the Rabbi: May women chant Megilat Esther?...
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February 27, 2012
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▪ Why I Dread Purim ▪ Senior Zionist Rabbis Reach Out to IDF Chief of Staff ▪ Spain displays long-hidden remnants of expelled Jewish community ▪ Course teaches Haredi girls...
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