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Hirhurim — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:09:56 +0000

▪ R. Shmuley Boteach runs for Congress
▪ Follow the Ethical Guidelines
▪ Create Tax for Jewish Education
▪ Yeshiva U. ranks as fourth most popular U.S. college
▪ OU has found solution to Orthodoxy’s problems: Houston
▪ Occupy Oakland chapter votes to support BDS
▪ Ex-haredim to sue State for damages
▪ R. Wein: The Frier Complex
▪ Rabbi Menachem Youlus Says He Lied About Saving Torahs
▪ Magen Tzedek Certification Program is Officially “Open for Business”
▪ What Else Does the Bible Teach About Capitalism?
▪ Kippah-Wearing Student Told to Prove Religion
▪ What Happened to the Moshiach Campaign?
▪ SALT Friday
▪ New issue of The Klal Perspectives Journal
▪ Hear, O Friends of Israel
▪ The challenge of haredim
▪ Rabbis work to verify Jewish status
▪ Chief rabbi of Amsterdam is reinstated
▪ Beit Shemesh parents: Police are working, courts are not
▪ Kosher Innovations Releases Shabbos Toilet Paper
▪ The Spit Felt ‘Round The World’
▪ Oprah Goes Orthodox (Sort Of)
▪ New from OU Press: R. Norman Lamm on Purim
▪ Rav Edelstein Stands Firm in Support of IDF Soldiers
▪ In Brooklyn Redistricting, Eggs In One Basket
▪ SALT Thursday
▪ R. Sacks: ‘God loves diversity’
▪ R. Metzger calls for strike over appointment crisis
▪ Jewish groups sign on to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
▪ Reb Nachman’s synagogue available for Uman pilgrims
▪ JONAH and the Netherlands
▪ What’s So Jewish About Test Prep?
▪ New Dati Leumi Hashgacha – Badatz Orot
▪ SALT Wednesday
▪ The lost Aryeh Kaplan II
▪ R. Efrem Goldberg interviews Mayim Bialik
▪ New Orthodox group puts Israeli women at its head
▪ Spertus Institute reinvents itself
▪ Meshi-Zahav: Haredi leaders must speak out against zealots
▪ ‘Appoint non-Orthodox Jerusalem rabbi’
▪ Beat it, rabbi
▪ SALT Tuesday
▪ Re Parashas Ha-Man
▪ SOY Seforim Sale Calendar
▪ The lost Aryeh Kaplan
▪ Sundance Town Goes Kosher
▪ Rabbis: Stay away from Internet
▪ Local rabbi assesses risk, donates kidney to help stranger
▪ What the Bible Teaches About Capitalism
▪ IDF Rabbinate: Accept Women’s Singing
▪ Proposed ‘Super Jewish’ Senate District
▪ Haredi sector cutting wedding costs
▪ SALT Monday
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Hirhurim — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:17:26 +0000

▪ Observant survivors keep the faith after Holocaust
▪ Morale: Israeli Soldiers And The Internal Threat
▪ Orthodox groups protest federal decision on contraception
▪ An Open Letter to Rabbi Dov Linzer on Modesty and Jewish Law
▪ Women’s Modesty in Israel – 3 Perspectives
▪ The Seichel Deficit
▪ SALT Friday
▪ New From OU Press: “What’s Wrong with the Orthodox Jewish Community?”
▪ YU Students Talk Tachlis about Social Justice
▪ Haredi rabbi battles religious coercion, violence
▪ 25 years later, Shlock Rock is still rockin’
▪ Israeli Jews becoming more religious, poll finds
▪ Can we afford kosher lettuce?
▪ Day Schools See Future With Non-Jews
▪ The Perils Of ‘Potch Culture’
▪ SALT Thursday
▪ Pre-slaughter stun less humane than shechita
▪ Trotsky Eats and Runs
▪ An Irish Catholic Clears Up Her Religious Identity—by Majoring in Jewish Studies
▪ The Bureaucracy’s Creep Against Life
▪ A different kind of traditional rabbi
▪ Reporting Abuse If The Child May Be Placed In A Non-Jewish Home
▪ Young Filipinos integrating into Israeli society
▪ SALT Wednesday
▪ Rav Neuwirth Rejects Kosher Switch
▪ Jews and Booze
▪ Park City shul is a popular venue for Sundance films
▪ Court ruling confuses religious workers
▪ Siren Songs
▪ Justice Min. OKs Egalitarian Child Custody Bill
▪ Ancient Jewish scrolls found in north Afghanistan
▪ Chabad Synagogue in a Mosque
▪ SALT Tuesday
▪ UN calls on Israel to amend custody law
▪ Why can’t my girl be called to the Torah?
▪ What Does Schechter Decline Mean?
▪ Accusation: Shas leaders ‘taking over rabbinate’
▪ Jewish day schools putting Apple iPads to the test
▪ Building an Eruv in Omaha
▪ Satmar Rabbanim Ban Frum Magazines
▪ Fighting Yesterday’s Battle – A View from the Beit Shemesh Front Lines
▪ UPublisher Regrets Suggesting That Israel Assassinate Obama
▪ Responding to abuse – interview with Dr. Yitzchak Schecter of CAPS of Rockland County
▪ Nahlaot community reels from largest pedophile abuse case in nation’s history
▪ SALT Monday
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Hirhurim — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:04:33 +0000

▪ Thousands in Jerusalem protest racism against Ethiopian Israelis
▪ From Portsmouth Virginia to Telz: The Legacy of Rabbi Mordechai Gifter
▪ Ironies Behind A Stunning Synagogue
▪ Ultra-Orthodox Jews and the Modesty Fight
▪ Dutch decision on chief rabbi suspension criticised
▪ Rabbis step in as matchmakers on new Jewish dating sites
▪ SALT Friday
▪ Israel’s Chief Rabbinate freezes plan to help determine brain death
▪ HODS Celebrates First 10 Years
▪ Rabbi: Don’t open tap on Shabbat
▪ Jack Lew and the Power of Shabbat
▪ Online Global Community Of Sabbath Hosts And Guests
▪ New Brooklyn Missionary Hub to Target Lubavitchers
▪ R. Melamed: It Is a Big Mitzvah to Serve in IDF
▪ SALT Thursday
▪ Judge upholds Ind. school voucher law, rejects claims it unconstitutionally supports religion
▪ Building tolerance – even for haredim
▪ Israel cracking down on admissions screening at ultra-Orthodox girls schools
▪ Israel seeks to end ancient African Jewish custom
▪ Crowd Sourcing The Sermon
▪ Beit Shemesh And Torah Sages
▪ Amsterdam chief rabbi suspended for gay stance
▪ R. Eliezer Melamed: Stop IDF draft
▪ Zero Interest in Ever Visiting Israel
▪ Gentile inmate should get kosher meals, appeals court rules
▪ SALT Wednesday
▪ R Levanon Denies Report of Resigning
▪ Ultra-Orthodox teens accost U.S. immigrant boy in Beit Shemesh
▪ New bill seeks to scrap local religious council
▪ PM plans to extend Tal Law for 5 years
▪ EU rabbis urge religious freedom in Egypt
▪ On Teaching Talmud and Marital Aids
▪ Haredim trade IDF for police service
▪ Day School Numbers Not So Bad
▪ Chasidic History: Belz Sends Delegation To Graveside Of Satmar Rabbis To Ask Forgiveness
▪ SALT Tuesday
▪ Building Bridges to Save a City and a Nation
▪ R Elyakim Levanon quits over IDF policy banning boycotts of events with women singers
▪ JTS to Establish Polonsky Digitization Lab
▪ R Ovadiah Yosef rabbi prays for Mubarak’s acquittal
▪ WJC to honor pro-Israel Christian leaders
▪ The Secular Press Is Out Of Control
▪ Yiddish-Japanese Dictionary
▪ Mirsky: Gender Trouble
▪ R E Feldman: The Volume That Speaks Volumes
▪ R Wein: The Reason For The Silence
▪ Israel Faces Crisis Over Role
▪ Kolbrenner: Can We Talk?
▪ SALT Monday
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Hirhurim — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:11:20 +0000

▪ R Yaakov Neuberger: Unity
▪ Human Rights and Religious Wrongs
▪ The Kavod Of A Bas Yisrael
▪ Modern Orthodox organ-donor campaign slammed
▪ Young single woman wages legal battle against mikveh ban
▪ Chief rabbi makes Kiddush at kibbutz
▪ Kars4Kids Charity Accused in Tuition Feud
▪ SALT Friday
▪ Campaign to destroy Puah is part of a cultural war between the Jewish people and the State of Israel
▪ Egyptians: No pilgrimage to Rabbi Abuhatzeira’s tomb
▪ Teaneck High School Reaches Out to Local Jewish Community
▪ The Best of Times, The Worst of Times for Women Conservative Rabbis
▪ Beit Shemesh Mayor Faces Possible Law-Suit For Libel Over AMI Magazine Interview
▪ Innovative New Chumash To Be Used By US Military
▪ Justices Recognize ‘Ministerial Exception’ to Job Discrimination Laws
▪ SALT Thursday
▪ Police: Flatbush “Hate” Firebombings Were Insurance Scam, Not Anti-Semitism
▪ Eda Haredit denounces state ‘oppression’
▪ When Women Can’t Even Say Thank You
▪ Haredi school discrimination ruling postponed
▪ Doctors ordered to pull out of gender-separated conference
▪ No men in next gynecology conference
▪ Jewish Education on the edge: It’s time for new terminology
▪ Talmudic Investing: An Asset Allocation Strategy Of Biblical Proportions
▪ The Jewish Imperative For Child Adoption
▪ Chabad Rabbi Donates Kidney
▪ Homosexuals in the Orthodox Community
▪ IDF: No coercion of haredi soldiers
▪ Surprise! ‘Häagen-Dazs not kosher
▪ More suspected pedophiles arrested in haredi Orthodox neighborhood
▪ In Fiery Speech Noted Rabbi Says Charedi Extremist Should Shave Their Beards
▪ Temple Menorah Stamp Affirms Jewish Claim to Land
▪ SALT Wednesday
▪ Eida Chareidis Letter Authenticated
▪ Obama names an Orthodox Jew as his next chief of staff
▪ Every Polish Town Had Own Holocaust
▪ Are you a descendant of King David
▪ Can religious women bridge IDF rifts?
▪ Rabbi Dov Lior – A Quintessential Jewish Patriot
▪ Rabbi seeks OK to put synagogue on his Englewood property
▪ D.C. settles rabbi’s special-election lawsuit
▪ SALT Tuesday
▪ Israel Plans New Rules on Exchange of Prisoners
▪ A ray of sunshine for embattled Beit Shemesh
▪ Tzohar head against bill promoted by own group
▪ Rabbi urges troops to defy orders (I would)
▪ Poll: 51% say ‘kosher buses’ legitimate
▪ Steven Greenberg insists he’s Orthodox
▪ RCA says he’s not
▪ Sweden recognises new file-sharing religion Kopimism
▪ Ban on new CD
▪ On the Hebrew pronunciation controversy in England of 1952
▪ Caroline Glick: Is Israeli society unraveling?
▪ Nachlaot Pedophile Crisis: At Least 100 Victims
▪ SALT Monday
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Hirhurim — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:36:31 +0000

▪ A Tale of Beggars and Minyans
▪ Beit Shemesh residents decry ‘haredi only’ neighborhood
▪ Public diplomacy against shechita laws
▪ Share and share alike: Boulder’s Jewish community at work
▪ National-religious rabbis slam gender segregation
▪ Be the Miracle: Watch well your words
▪ Retired Judge to Media: Use Common Sense
▪ Israeli doctors withdraw from fertility conference over exclusion of women
▪ Yisgadeil Veyiskadeish Shemei Rabboh
▪ SALT Friday
▪ Report: Hareidi Soldiers Told to Clean Women’s Restroom
▪ Prominent NJ rabbi gets 5-year prison term for hiding $1M in massive corruption case
▪ Local Support Grows for ‘Chained’ Woman
▪ Raising More Tolerant Children
▪ Beit Shemesh: Dialogue Is The Only Solution
▪ Nefesh Head Backs Away From ‘Torah Declaration’ On Gays
▪ Hamodia Publisher Calls On The Charedi Community To Rise Up Against Religious ‘Fanatics’
▪ On Feminism and Fanaticism: A Female Charedi Attorney’s Perspective
▪ New York – The Shechita Wars
▪ SALT Thursday
▪ Scholars offer new explanation for rare Temple artifact in Jerusalem
▪ Looking Good For Rabbi Aryeh Stern As Next Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Of Jerusalem
▪ Banned! Israel May Outlaw Weird Names
▪ For the Glove of the Game
▪ New Words Coined To Exclude Women
▪ Haredi Orthodox children attacked in Jerusalem
▪ IDF to supervise rabbi-soldier meetings
▪ Beitar Illit store offers men-only counter
▪ Haredi soldier warns: We’ll leave IDF over women’s singing
▪ Everyone is fighting a different battle
▪ SALT Wednesday
▪ R. Yehuda Levin supports husband who refuses to give get (video)
▪ Sorcerer for the Goose and Gander
▪ Scrolls raise questions about Afghan Jewish history
▪ R Robinson: The Curse of Violent Extremism – from the 10th of Tevet to Bet Shemesh
▪ Where do Israeli haredim stand on haredi violence?
▪ Haredim reject Beit Shemesh division plan
▪ The Living Torah Museum Comes To Lakewood
▪ Are These Not Jewish Children?
▪ The Events in Beit Shemesh: A Hareidi Resident Speaks
▪ The Human Spirit: What do religious women want?
▪ Working Men
▪ SALT Tuesday
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Hirhurim — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:15:03 +0000

▪ R. Elyashiv bans Mishpacha magazine (Hebrew)
▪ How Jewish Is Occupy Wall Street?
▪ Occupy Wall Street and the Jews
▪ Army rabbi: IDF is no place for mistreating women
▪ Halachic Analysis: Celebrating New Year
▪ Haredi accused of sexually harassing soldier files appeal
▪ Dreidel-spinning record falls
▪ Limmud Nation
▪ How to Keep Shabbos in Samoa
▪ Day Schools Stuck in Neutral
▪ SALT Friday
▪ RCA, OU Joint Statement Regarding Violence in Beit Shemesh, Israel
▪ YUTorah 2011 Year in Review
▪ Beit Shemesh rally ‘a success’ say protest leaders
▪ Rabbi Melamed: Mehadrin Busses Undermine Family Structure
▪ ACLU: State Violates Kosher Food Order
▪ Agudath Israel: Acts Of Violence By Self Appointed Zealots Are Beyond Moral Jewish Behavior
▪ Margaret Thatcher and the Jews
▪ Court Crosses Constitutional Line by Ordering Husband to Give Get
▪ The Silent Majority No More: We Protest the Colossal Desecration of Yiddishkeit and Torah
▪ Charedi Arrested For Calling Girl A Derogatory Slur After She Refused To Move To The Back Of Bus
▪ SALT Thursday
▪ Rabbis get biblical on same-sex lovin’
▪ Torah Declaration on Homosexuality
▪ Who Can Replace R. Sacks?
▪ Haredim join protest against zealots
▪ MK On Women Singing: Orthodox Soldiers Should Use Earplugs
▪ IDF chief: Ceremonies where women sing mandatory for religious soldiers
▪ R. Elyashiv leader calls for boycott of IDF, college programs
▪ An Index for the Talmud, After 1,500 Years (first??? – link)
▪ New on OU Torah: Rabbi Pinchas Teitz in Yiddish
▪ Manischewitz Creates Kosher Food for Gentiles
▪ SALT Wednesday
▪ On Reverend’s Handbooks and Bar Mitzvah speeches for American boys of a century ago
▪ Displaying the Menorah on Public Property: Is it Really a Good Idea?
▪ Israel city braces for thousands of protesters against exclusion of women
▪ Ultra-Orthodox Jews ask Israeli media to help rid them of extremists
▪ Women’s singing: Gantz proposes compromise
▪ Haredim: Women excluding themselves
▪ SALT Tuesday
▪ On Partnership Minyanim
▪ Girl, 8, Becomes Poster Child for Anti-Haredi Backlash
▪ R. J. Sacks: The Limits of Secularism
▪ L. Feldman: Hebraism and Hellenism reconsidered
▪ L. Strauss: Jerusalem and Athens
▪ Israeli archaeologists discover ancient clay seal in Jerusalem, suggest link to Temple ritual
▪ ‘Kosher psychology’ gives hope to haredim
▪ Rulings re Har Nof pedophile: I, II
▪ Kars4Kids is questioned by charity watchdogs
▪ New issue of Milin Havivin
▪ SALT Monday
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Hirhurim — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:19:32 +0000

▪ Loving the Law (a Catholic thinker reads Halakhic Man)
▪ Jews weren’t all pedlars and criminals, Mr Dickens
▪ The Safran Dreidel Collection
▪ Israeli officials escalate war of words with N.Y. Times
▪ Season For Miracles and Learning
▪ Happy Hanukkah, Marines!
▪ Mumbai synagogue celebrates 150th year
▪ Leaving The December Dilemma Behind
▪ High-Tech Education and High Quality?
▪ At Reform biennial, handwringing over the next generation
▪ R. Avraham Yosef: Segregated Buses Idiotic
▪ SALT Thursday
▪ Yiddish making a comeback at colleges
▪ Rabbi, Matisyahu shaved off his beard! Should I shave off mine?
▪ N.Y. lawmaker Carl Kruger quits over bribery charges (what’s up with the lead paragraph?)
▪ Holland: New rules on animal slaughter
▪ Haredi solution: ‘Kosher’ bus company
▪ The Meaning of the Name “Maccabee”
▪ Translating the Bible From Hebrew — To Hebrew
▪ Day School Enrollment Trending Downward
▪ Constitutional Crisis At Young Israel
▪ Questions Aren’t Fatal
▪ SALT Wednesday
▪ Guide for the traveler on Chanukah
▪ Can Reform Jews be politically conservative?
▪ Shas Sets Up Shop in U.S.
▪ Leader Asks Jews To Return to Tunisia
▪ In Search of the Moderate Voice
▪ Haredim protest dense burial campaign
▪ Christopher Hitchens’ lessons on writing a derashah
▪ A Review of Responses to the Beacon article
▪ R. Shlomo Amar: A woman rabbi is an uprooting of the Torah
▪ The Origins of the Non-Jewish Custom Of ‘Schlissel Challah’
▪ SALT Tuesday
▪ YUTorah Online – Chanuka To Go
▪ Jon D. Levenson: The Meaning of Hanukkah
▪ Orthosexuality
▪ Satmar Rebbe Condemns Jews Who Bash Obama
▪ ‘Kosher electricity law’ pulled
▪ New Yorkers producing film on Israel’s Six-Day War victory
▪ The Political Orthodoxy of Hebrew Union College
▪ At Orthodox Toy Store in Brooklyn, Batman Is Not Kosher
▪ Yes, An Orthodox Rabbi Can ‘Do’ a Commitment Ceremony
▪ Brooklyn D.A. Refuses To Name Child Sex Abusers
▪ SALT Monday
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Hirhurim — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:08:02 +0000

▪ Speaking with children about abuse
▪ In tough times, relying on the Jewish community for help
▪ Milk Street Cafe to close for good after ‘Occupy’ protests scare away customers
▪ SALT Thursday
▪ New Outreach To Intermarrieds Makes Wrong Assumptions
▪ Orthodox Convert Nixed On Aliyah, Despite Deal
▪ R. Slifkin: Gevalt! The Jerusalem Post!
▪ Religous-Zionist rabbis mixed over IDF base raid
▪ Making the White House Kitchen Kosher
▪ Some Haredim call Beit Shemesh girls ‘prostitutes’
▪ Bigger than the beard, Matisyahu move marks ongoing spiritual journey
▪ Rumor aside, search for Sacks’ successor proceeds
▪ Former teacher accused of “inappropriate sexual contact” with Torah Academy student
▪ Jewish Action
▪ OU Kosher Magazine: Behind the Union Label
▪ SALT Wednesday
▪ Schindler’s List Is Everything That’s Wrong With American-Jewish Life
▪ Dutch ban on ritual slaughter in doubt
▪ Orthodox Push for Own Districts
▪ Beacon editor: Why I Published That Column
▪ R. Jonathan Sacks tells pope Jewish-Christian relations in Britain good
▪ Private and public faith in Israel
▪ Naomi Ragen Plagiarism Verdict Not an Attempt to Limit Free Speech
▪ Jerusalem Welcomes New, Niche-Driven Yeshivot
▪ ADL, AJC reportedly suffering major drops in donations
▪ Chief Rabbi: Has Europe Lost its Soul?
▪ SALT Tuesday
▪ Rabbi Yosef Agrees to Release His Would-Be Killer
▪ Yoffie Led Return to Reform Roots
▪ Rabbi-Chaplains of the Civil War
▪ Gender fight reaches buses, billboards
▪ Language Experts Float Dueling Theories on ‘L’Chaim’
▪ David Hartman: ‘Religion now more dangerous than Arabs’
▪ Revisionism and the Rav Revisited
▪ Americans and God
▪ SALT Monday
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Hirhurim — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:32:21 +0000

▪ The YU Beacon Piece on Sexuality
▪ How is Sforno’s name really pronounced?
▪ Shedding light on Chanukah
▪ Gender Equality Elusive in Salary Survey
▪ Egged buses return to Mea Shearim
▪ An Editor’s Goodbye
▪ Jewish University, School Newspaper Cut Ties Over Controversial Sex Column
▪ Why Has My Yeshiva Not Revoked Steven Greenberg’s Semichah?
▪ Tackling Day School Affordability
▪ Conventional Conventions
▪ SALT Friday
▪ Day School World Gauging Fallout From SAT Scandal
▪ Steven Greenberg: The Case For Companionship
▪ ADL urges chief rabbis to denounce spitting at Christians
▪ Israel’s High Court to hear petition against segregation at ultra-Orthodox girls’ schools
▪ Jerusalem: Hundreds rally against women’s shunning
▪ Beards in the Army â€“ A First Amendment Lesson
▪ Gov’t must explain continued kollel payments
▪ SALT Thursday
▪ In Lakewood Abuse Cases, A ‘Parallel Justice System’
▪ Day School World Gauging Fallout From SAT Scandal
▪ B’Derech GED Program Flourishing and Adding Women’s Division
▪ Stores refuse to open on Shabbat
▪ Rav Schachter on Chazal and Science
▪ 5 Things I Wish All Orthodox People Knew
▪ SALT Wednesday
▪ Hey Israel, is America still the Golden Medina?
▪ A Dissenting Opinion on ‘Aba-Gate’
▪ After American Outcry, Israel Ends Ad Campaign Aimed at Expatriates
▪ Ads Featuring Women Return to Jerusalem
▪ Orthodox Mental Health Workers Seen Changing On Homosexuality
▪ Mind The Gap Between Orthodox And Other Jews
▪ SALT Tuesday
▪ Elder Abuse – Distorting Judaism and Shaming the Avos
▪ Top Israeli rabbi: Segregated buses not Jewish law
▪ Ashkenazi and Sephardi rabbis battle over Sabbath hours in Elad
▪ The stranger in your midst
▪ American Jewry’s Data Problem
▪ Ask the Rabbi: May a mentally incompetent person marry?
▪ The Evil Inclination
▪ Jewish Farmers’ Settlement to Win Historic Status
▪ ‘Y-hweh’ Should Not Offend Anyone
▪ Clinton Shocked at Israeli Women’s Status
▪ The problem with ‘dynamic’ rabbis
▪ Moroccan Jews lose community leader
▪ A Victim Treats His Mugger Right
▪ SALT Monday
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Hirhurim — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:48:31 +0000

▪ A Traditional Jewish Loan Program Helps Ease Pain of Tough Economic Times
▪ Debate re Teaching Torah and Science
▪ Agudah Convention Recap
▪ Israeli city bans religious-friendly Italian circus
▪ The Tenth Man
▪ In Detroit, Jewish resurgence led by young aims to transform city
▪ French Jews now allowed to reclaim their old surnames
▪ R. Slifkin: Look Before You Leap
▪ SALT Friday
▪ Judaism as a First Language
▪ Jews and Black Baseball
▪ NYC’s Jewish Museum creates Menorah exhibit
▪ Jewish group’s boss told ‘mensch’ where to pray
▪ IDF inaugurates 1st military mikveh
▪ Mea She’arim shop accedes to vandalist demands
▪ Haredim shouldn’t join army
▪ ACLU sues bus agency over refusal of ‘Boycott Israel’ ad
▪ Orthodox shul welcomes female intern
▪ New Ways To TackleThe Day School Tuition Crunch
▪ Can Online Portals Transform Hebrew Schools?
▪ Extradition Testing Rival B’klyn Patrol Groups
▪ SALT Wednesday
▪ Orthodox Jewish Feminist Challenges Traditional Patriarchy
▪ Rav Zalman Leib Teitelbaum of Satmar Visits Miami Chabad Yeshiva
▪ Strictly Orthodox now one fifth of British Jews
▪ Is Judaism a Religion?
▪ Time for Prophets and Moral Outrage
▪ Pius XII’s Legacy Divides Catholics Too
▪ Shas rabbi’s daughter for women’s rights
▪ Russian book fair honors Israel-themed tome
▪ Brooklyn DA claims record number of child sex-abuse charges vs. haredim
▪ SALT Tuesday
▪ Israel’s chief rabbi responds to Haaretz’s ‘Without the Rabbinate’ series on Orthodox Jews
▪ Love, Marriage, and the Israeli Rabbinate
▪ An Alter-ed Perspective on the Bible
▪ NYC Jewish women want to join all-male EMT group
▪ Conservatives Grapple With Gay Marriage Rite
▪ Bill to end wedding fees for rabbis
▪ Haredim seek secular mayoral candidate
▪ R. Mosheh Lichtenstein on women singing in IDF (Hebrew)
▪ At Agudah Convention: Brooklyn Rabbi Proposes Kosher 24/6 Internet Centers
▪ A Jewish Edition of the New Testament
▪ A Community of Holocaust Survivors Dwindles
▪ R. Meiselman on Torah and Science

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