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Shavuot and Loving Relationships
There is an article in this week’s Jewish Press written by a Rabbi E. Ziegler about the teachings of the late Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik. A scribe must write a Torah with sanctified intent. It is… more →
Jewish Relationships
A Clarification of Rabbi Asher Lopatin's Political Views on Israel
Asher Lopatin wrote 1 day ago: Friends, I wanted to clarify by views on Israel by listing my basic views on the State of Israel and … more →
Judith the Jewess
Sara Hurwitz wrote 1 day ago: Mahara”t Sara Hurwitz The Book of Judith is associated with Chanukah. And yet, the book is not canon … more →
More on "The Ever-Narrowing Orthodox Mind"
Yosef Kanefsky wrote 2 days ago: I thank all of my friends and new friends who have shared comments on the “Ever-Narrowing Orthodox M … more →
Islam as the relgion of Hesed
Alan Brill wrote 1 week ago: Dr Avraham Elqayam is head of the Shlomo Moussaieff Center for Kabbalah Research and professor of Ka … more →
Women of the Wall respond
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Sara Hurwitz wrote 1 week ago: Mahara”t Sara Hurwitz My post entitled “Arrested for Wearing a Tallit” evoked quite a passiona … more →
The Ever-Narrowing Orthodox Mind.
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Yosef Kanefsky wrote 1 week ago: Another way that we are unnecessarily making Orthodoxy unappealing to folks is by tolerating the per … more →
On Line Psak - Bad Medicine
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Barry Gelman wrote 1 week ago: I am sure that many are familiar with the phenomenon on internet piskei halach – the popular notion … more →
Rabbi Hirschenson's Malki Bakodesh
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Alan Brill wrote 1 week ago: I was given a copy of the 2006 reprint of Rabbi Hayyim Hirschenson’s Malki baKodesh on my last journ … more →
Unwittingly Desecrating G-d’s Name by Rabbi Hyim Shafner
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Hyim Shafner wrote 2 weeks ago: How should we act as Orthodox Jews? Today I was talking to a congregant who told me that her in-laws … more →
Angel's Maimonides - rationality and social order
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Alan Brill wrote 2 weeks ago: Steve Nadler gives a favorable review to Marc Angel’s Maimonides, Spinoza and Us: Toward an Intelle … more →
Understanding the Rape of Dina
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Sara Hurwitz wrote 2 weeks ago: We are about to read the disturbing story of Dina, the daughter of Lea and Jacob. The entire chapter … more →
Lord Jonathan Sacks on the Siddur
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Alan Brill wrote 2 weeks ago: 1] When I think of certain prayer books commentaries, I sometimes think of them with a few words. Hi … more →
Arrested for Wearing a Tallit?
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Sara Hurwitz wrote 3 weeks ago: Mahara”t Sara Hurwitz I was outraged and shocked to read of the recent arrest of Nofrat Frenkel, a w … more →
Can Orthodoxy get better market share? PART 2
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Yosef Kanefsky wrote 3 weeks ago: In my previous post, http://www.jewishjournal.com/morethodoxy/item/are_we_our_own_biggest_problem_39 … more →
Saying Kaddish Over Kaddish - Rabbi Barry Gelman
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Barry Gelman wrote 3 weeks ago: A well known phenomenon of American Jewry is the widespread recitation of kaddish in memory of decea … more →
Was the Zohar ever a book?
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Alan Brill wrote 3 weeks ago: Daniel Abrams, “The Invention of the Zohar as a Book” Kabbalah 19 (2009) 7-142 I just finished a ver … more →
Defining Morethodoxy (a re-posting of an earlier essay)
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Hyim Shafner wrote 4 weeks ago: Morethodoxy. One more label to add to an already thinly divided Jewish world? In subtitling our blo … more →
A Father's Love
colloquiallyspeaking wrote 1 month ago: There have been few times in my life when I’ve felt utterly connected to the One above. The h … more →
A Tiny but Articulate Minority -The Thought of Rabbi Walter Wurzburger
Alan Brill wrote 1 month ago: I have been asked by several people for a copy of my article on Rabbi Walter Wurzburger’s tho … more →
