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November 7, 2011 100 Comments

▪ R Sacks: Faith and the Future of Europe ▪ The Origins of Discontent ▪ Jump Shot Jews ▪ Hidden Treasures of Cairo Genizah ▪ Alternative religious weddings allowed to continue ▪ ‘Occupy’ New Third Rail For Jewish Mainstream ▪ SALT Friday ▪ Deal to Allow Tzohar Rabbis to Perform Weddings on Track ▪ R Broyde: Modern Orthodoxy is Always at the Crossroads ▪ Angry Birds: Spiritual Life Lessons ▪ Jewish settlers may have arrived...
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October 31, 2011 146 Comments

▪ Ultra-Orthodox spitting attacks on Old City clergymen becoming daily ▪ Teaching kids to hate Talmud ▪ Kaliningrad Jews battle circus over restoring synagogue ▪ Divorcing the rabbinate ▪ The controversial acronym “akum” ▪ Jews Need Count, Not Wishful Thinking ▪ OU Press Publishes...
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October 24, 2011 237 Comments

▪ Ministers fail to decide on livestock stunning exemptions ▪ The Next Wave Of Jewish Feminism: Engaging Jewish Men In Communal Life ▪ Kabbalah Centre: Marketing Superstition as Spirituality? ▪ The struggle for teen spirituality ▪ Without the Rabbinate, I’ll thee wed ▪ Rabbi...
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October 17, 2011
84 Comments

▪ R. Meir Soloveichik: Why Joshua? ▪ Women ride in back on sex-segregated Brooklyn bus line ▪ Christian Backers of Israel Reach Out to Blacks ▪ How the GOP...
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October 10, 2011
114 Comments

▪ Strictly Kosher Reading: An interview with Dr. Yoel Finkelman ▪ R. Yosef Soloveichik on R. Ahron Soloveichik’s 10th yahrtzeit ▪ In the beginning: The latest commentaries on Genesis...
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October 3, 2011
376 Comments

▪ All These Vows ▪ The Laws and Practices of Erev Yom Kippur ▪ In The Shadow Of Destruction ▪ Aleinu – The power of one word ▪ A...
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September 26, 2011
192 Comments

▪ Letters to the Next Generation 2 (PDF) ▪ Pay to Pray? ▪ Rabbi Sacks: Long live books – bringers of life and enlightenment ▪ Rabbi Metzger: Let troops avoid...
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September 19, 2011
152 Comments

▪ Maccabeats Rosh Hashanah Song ▪ The White House’s Advice for Your Rabbi ▪ Single-Sex Education Is Assailed in Report ▪ Young Rabbis Love Israel But Lean to Left...
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September 12, 2011
329 Comments

▪ Appeals Court: Rubashkin Doesn’t Deserve New Trial ▪ The Lonely Man of Faith (video) ▪ Australian burial society live-streams funerals ▪ Rabbis differ over women singing in army ▪...
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September 5, 2011
137 Comments

▪ Men Protest Panels Excluding Women ▪ Did Moses Have a Speech Impediment? ▪ ‘Torah archaeology’ sheds light on ancient Talmudic dispute ▪ Cadets dismissed over woman’s song ▪...
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August 29, 2011
134 Comments

▪ Great video about disconnecting ▪ Frisco Kids ▪ Judge bans Sabbath sewer talk ▪ Historic Esrog Tree in Rav Michel Yehudah’s Yard Has Died ▪ Holding on to...
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August 22, 2011
109 Comments

▪ Jerusalem’s walls restored, idiosyncracies and all ▪ Post-denominational but Conservative-trained Rabbi Shai Held responds to my vegetarian theology article ▪ Nothing Orthodox About Open Orthodoxy ▪ Welcoming Shabbat...
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