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Alysa Stanton made history when she was ordained at Cincinnati’s Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion in June. She now leads Congregation Bayt Shalom the only synagogue in Greenville, N.C. Like any new rabbi’s acclimation, Stanton’s hasn’t been easy.
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This is Jew Flu - the virus of Jewish Anti-Semitism, and its Jewish Anti- and Post-Zionist mutations, afflicting a small but inordinately loud minority of Hebrews.
Its modern symptoms are a rejection of Israel's identity as a Jewish state and a dismissal of its right to defend itself militarily, while embracing the goals of its nihilistic Arab enemies. Those infected with the virus wildly inflate Israeli sins real or imagined, while excusing...
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“Having a ham sandwich on the afternoon of Yom Kippur doesn’t make you less Jewish,” Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet, chairman of the Rabbinical Council of the United Synagogue, said recently.
I feel like this may be a license for mis-behavior. (If you’re interested in the context of Rabbi Schochet’s remark, click here.)
Cross-posted at Conventional Folly
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From themoderatevoice.com
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In the musty conference room of a South Dakota hotel, Sholom Rubashkin helps a disheveled man in a hooded sweat shirt wrap black bands around his left arm and head. Attached to each is a black box containing inscriptions from the Torah."It's on your arm close to your heart, on your head close to your thoughts," Rubashkin, a leader in the Orthodox Jewish community, tells Robert Graham in a thick
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- Orthodox Jews flock to South Dakota, support leader on trial (timesdispatch.com)
- More on Kosher Sanctioned Murder (sott.net)
There has been another meeting of EJF - Eternal Jewish Family - headed by Rabbi Leib Tropper. And if one reads the list of attendees, it’s almost a who’s who of right wing Orthodox rabbinic leadership.Curiously there was also not a single Rav or Dayan - right wing or otherwise – who was listed as attending from Chicago. We have our share of Orthodox conversions here too. Some are done by right wing rabbis. I did not see a single name from...
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by Reb Gutman Locks at Mystical PathsSo went one of the comments to the article, “Spiritual or Physical.” Is this correct? Are the majority of the mitzvahs that we hold so dear today only additions to the Torah, invented by the rabbis?This is not a new argument. In fact, we find an example of it in Torah itself, when Korach challenged Moshe and Aaron.[i] “Who are you Moshe to make up these rules, appointing yourself over us? G-d did not tell...
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- Mix of Generations Get Chance to Keep Judaism Alive for Future (jewishexponent.com)
- The Hard Reality of Women Orthodox Rabbis (hirhurim.blogspot.com)
- What the Internet Can't Do (jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com)
Just weeks after the arrest of alleged Jewish terrorist, Yaakov Teitel, a West Bank rabbi on Monday released a book giving Jews permission to kill Gentiles who threaten Israel. Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro, who heads the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in the Yitzhar settlement, wrote in his book "The King's Torah" that even babies and children can be killed if they pose a threat to the nation. Shapiro based the majority of his teachings on passages quoted...
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