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Islam and Judaism 10 Jul 2013 | 05:49 am
Upon hearing the latest invectives from various Jews about the horrors of Islam, I come to appreciate how similar we all really are. The laws, the traditions, the customs and mores are practically th...
Leadership in Crisis 31 May 2013 | 07:14 pm
New week of hachlatas: Some of the bachurim and bachurot today are reviving a ba'al tshuva movement, even among the FFB's, a new rededication to try and reel in the youth as they bleed away from reli...
Who killed Jesus? 1 Apr 2013 | 03:23 am
According to the New Testament, in such form as it exists today, in all four versions of the story, there is no doubt that the Sadducees arranged to arrest, try and execute him, and the fact is beyond...
Weirdness in the daf 25 Dec 2012 | 03:06 am
There is weirdness, in the Shakespearean sense, Shabbos at the end of daf 81b-82a, the daf shiur yesterday. It is one of the stories brought on the infamous Chulin 105 group of agadatas. According t...
Not again 11 Oct 2012 | 02:50 am
OMG not again. Remember when Congress was honorable? (Me neither.) I can't take this. It is becoming untenable and embarrassing to associated with fundamentalists. Move over Maxine Waters. You a...
Big Bird Crashing? 5 Oct 2012 | 09:05 pm
The press has been gathering all the monsters from the block to protest the Republican plan that calls for the cancellation of federal funding to PBS, which is distributed from borrowed money. Big Bi...
On Kaparot 7 Sep 2012 | 02:09 am
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/article.php?p=139250 srael: Kaporos Under Fire Earlier than Usual (Tuesday, September 4th, 2012) This year’s anti-kaporos campaign in Israel appears to have begun earli...
Chad Gadya tune 4 Sep 2012 | 09:15 am
Most Jews are familiar with the music for chad gadya, a song sung at the end of the Passover seder. After having seen the classic movie Moby Dick, I now wonder if the tune was of very recent origin. ...
Fundamentalist Science Cringes 23 Aug 2012 | 03:33 am
Is it just me? No, it definitely is not. Every time I hear a religious person talk about science, I grit my teeth and hope for the best. Sometimes, I sigh in relief at the end. Many times, I am no...
Oy not again 12 Aug 2012 | 04:35 pm
AP reports that the "blurry glasses" story has gone international. That's right! The brainchild of the loony tunes in Meah Shearim, glasses that are intentionally blurry, have made the wire. Let's ...
