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Why?
Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? All around the Jewish Internet, and around the Jewish world, we are asking “Why?” I asked “Why?” last year too. Why do we mourn on Tisha B’Av? Wh… more →
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Why?
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rejewvenator wrote 3 months ago: Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? All around the Jewish Internet, and around the Jewish world, we are asking … more →
Dealing with Dweck
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rejewvenator wrote 4 months ago: I’m not really a current events blogger, but the corruption scandal in NJ raises some interest … more →
The Gap Between Hareidim and Modern Orthodox
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rejewvenator wrote 4 months ago: In XGH’s most recent post, How to stop Chareidim breaking the law, the suggestion was to empha … more →
Conversions in Controversy: The Orthodox Patrilineal Descent
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rejewvenator wrote 5 months ago: By now you’ve all heard about Hareidi Rabbi Avraham Sherman, who heads Israel’s High Rab … more →
Looking for the Middle
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rejewvenator wrote 5 months ago: I recently saw a post from YD about the search for a middle path between Yeshivish Orthodoxy and Mod … more →
Land, People, and God (pt 1)
rejewvenator wrote 5 months ago: What is Judaism It’s not a race, nor is it just a religion. Ethnicity doesn’t capture th … more →
Alternative Models for Jewish Education
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rejewvenator wrote 8 months ago: I’ve been reading a lot of posts about Jewish education, often in the context of the economic … more →
Speculation on the Future of Orthodoxy
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rejewvenator wrote 9 months ago: The Orthodox community of the last few decades has seen itself as a community on the rise. The growt … more →
Homogeneous Orthodox
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rejewvenator wrote 1 year ago: A friend of mine recently challenged me to name my biggest problem with the Orthodox community. I to … more →
One Day, They'll ALL Be Orthodox
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rejewvenator wrote 1 year ago: That’s what an Orthodox rabbi once told me when I asked him what the Orthodox Jewish plan was … more →
Where Have All the Rabbis Gone?
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rejewvenator wrote 1 year ago: Reading Jordanna Birnbaum’s post about a “rabbi roundtable” she attended, I was st … more →
Reflections on Jewish Transformation
rejewvenator wrote 1 year ago: As you know I’ve been studying at the Hartman Institute for the past week, and I want to thank … more →
Shul on Time, Terrifies Me!
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rejewvenator wrote 1 year ago: I recently shared a shabbat lunch with a progressive family in a community not unlike my own. While … more →
Conservadox Grinds My Gears
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rejewvenator wrote 1 year ago: You know what really grinds my gear? The term Conservadox. Is there anyone out there who uses this t … more →
Hartman Institute to Ordain Orthodox Women Rabbis
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rejewvenator wrote 1 year ago: In a move that brings Orthodox Judaism hurtling forward through time to the 1960s, the Shalom Hartma … more →
Pay for Pray
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rejewvenator wrote 1 year ago: Ultra-Orthodox missionaries from Bnai Brak have hit upon a very old scheme for gaining adherents … more →
Denominationalism and Demographics
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rejewvenator wrote 1 year ago: A few weeks ago, after a well-received sermon at a Westchester synagogue, I was approached by one Dr … more →
Denominationalism Quote of the Day
rejewvenator wrote 2 years ago: Attributable to Rabbi Irving “Yitz” Greenberg Questioner (at the RCA convention a few ye … more →
The New Schism
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rejewvenator wrote 2 years ago: I have come to believe that a new schism is coming to the Jewish world, a vast new reorganization th … more →
