Tag: Controversey
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
What is Rabbi Shmuley Boteach?
by Rabbi Joshua Strulowitz, Congregation Adath Israel in San Francisco Reprinted from Rabbi Strulowitz's Blog on www.adathisraelsf.org What is Rabbi Shmuley Boteach? He is…
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Shul Life
Shul honors only mortgage holders
Guest post by Telz Angel There’s a bit of a kerfuffle at Shaarei An-Daron in Iberia, Missouri. As it turns out, the shul has…
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Rosh Hashana & Yom Kippur
Devar Torah Rosh Hashana
Rosh Hashana is coming, and I wanted to talk a little about shoes. OK...a lot about shoes. Last week, in response to a post…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
(Belated) Devar Torah Parshas Ki Savo
Guest post by Dale Rosenbach While Moses was preparing to give up leadership, the Israelites were preparing to enter the Promised Land and participate…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Newsweek’s Most Influential Rabbis
I love America. G-d bless America. It's the only country I know that does not have a chief rabbi, thanks to a very divided…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Presenting Rabbi Yehuda Levin
Rabbi Yehuda Levin made this video to get attention and it's working, it is also a huge Chillul Hashem. Rabbi Yehuda Levin is not…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Are you frum and off to prison? You may need to know new halachos?
The previous works of Rabbi Getzel Akum have established him as a Halachic expositor of the first order. His Mattir Issurim on the Halachos…
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Israel
Jimmy Carter Forced to Apologize to Jews, AIPAC Celebrates Job Well Done
And the Jews had light, and happiness, and joy and honor. Yes, we had all those things and more when President Jimmy Carter sheepishly…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Charedim refer to homosexuals as an abomination, but being dishonest in business is an abomination too
By Honestly Frum The torah warns us that there are 3 things that are so reprehensible that the only way we can refer to…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Is talking about Leib Tropper in a public manner a chillul Hashem?
"The enormous Chillul Hashem reported in Sunday’s New York Post is almost without precedent in thousands of years of Jewish history." As quoted by…
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Shul Life
Breakaway minyanim and yeshivas – are they a good thing?
My old hometown of Rochester, NY has gotten its first breakaway minyan, it was only time in such a politically charged Yeshiva Run town,…
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Jewish Life
Is the UJC Jewish Community Heroes Project a scam?
By now if you are hooked into the internet and have someone who is into shameless self promotion in honor of receiving a $25,000…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Fraud in the frum community: My thoughts and experiences
I am not shocked at all by the recent cases of business and money related fraud, its too bad I kind of expect this…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Top ten signs your Rabbi was recently indicted
By Seth Galena of Bang It Out - the original Jewish comedy website Top ten signs your Rabbi was recently indicted 10 Suddenly takes…
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Jewish Life
Britney Spears is converting to Judaism – who cares?
I think this is the most tznius picture of Britney I could find, but fear not - she's wearing a black hat. After dozens…
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Israel
The latest Charedi riots are a huge chillul Hashem
I can sort of understand rioting because shabbos is being desecrated, but rioting because a child abuser was arrested is completely insane, and a…
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Israel
Gay pride in Jerusalem: What do you think?
Below is footage taken from the peaceful Charedi protest of the Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem on that same day. I said tehillim, met…
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Israel
Burning dumpsters doesn’t show the beauty of shabbos!
I bid good bye to my friend Josh at Kikar Shabbat, we had expected some riots, but there were none and we both turned…
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Israel
Charedi shabbos protest thoughts
One of my most memorable moments from my half a year in Israel was when I incited a shabbos riot at the intersection of…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Meet the man behind Shaindy.com
Last month the Jewish internet world was turned upside down like sodom, when it was revealed that a website for frum extramarital affairs existed.…
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Pesach
Rabbis in Brooklyn finally make a good ban
Vos Iz Neias is reporting that 30 leading Rabbis in Brooklyn have signed a religious ban on price gouging for Pesach items. Sounds like…
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Jewish Life
Why I didn’t friend Bernie Madoff on facebook
One of my Facebook friends and I had a small chat yesterday about how come I rejected the friend request sent to me by…
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Israel
Rabbi in Israel: Returning lost cell phones is assur
I would like to thank the Yeshiva World News once again for providing me with fodder for yet another post that shows that Charedim…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Facebook is banned by Gedolei Yisroel
I received this letter in my email inbox - I always knew Facebook would be banned, but I assumed since the Gedolim had already…