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Inflection Point
Question: if an Orthodox rabbi does things that are not particularly “Orthodox,” do those actions then become defined as “Orthodox” because he did them or does he cease to be called an “Orthodox”...
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No Offense
The usually insightful Peggy Noonan (WSJ) broached an issue several weeks ago that brought back memories of my college years. It related to an article published by four aggrieved students in the...
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Liberal Policing
Unmentioned, as far as I know, in all the discussion about the escape of two convicted murderers from the Clinton Correctional Facility (the name itself could be the title of a future article on...
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Paralyzing Paradigms
Some things seem to be done only because they have always been done, notwithstanding that they are wrong, harmful, embarrassing, senseless, immoral or obsolete. Patterns become established, paradigms...
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“Cure” for Racism?
In the wake of the horrific massacre of nine people – studying the Bible, no less – in the black church in Charleston, President Obama lamented that America is “not cured” yet of racism. He is right....
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Disorder in the Court
Last week was not a particularly good one for jurisprudence, integrity, marriage, morality, common sense and even the United States’ viability as a nation. Two court cases undermined traditional...
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Our Generation’s Mechitza
Has Modern Orthodoxy lost its way? We can’t begin to answer that question without a working definition of Modern Orthodoxy, something that seems to bewilder many people. I have always embraced the...
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Obama is No Fool
On some level, it is not surprising that Barack Obama, son of an anti-American, anti-Western Muslim, and John Kerry, grandson of an apostate Jew, would empower the radical Islamic State of Iran with a...
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Oren’s “Ally”
Last week, a Muslim Arab named Abdul Azeez shot and murdered five US soldiers at military recruiting centers in Tennessee on the last day of Ramadan, and the Obama administration, puzzled, will not...
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Ten Years Later
Here in Israel, confrontations between the authorities and settlers of the land of Israel have again heated up this week, with scenes of destroyed Jewish homes conjuring up painful images from the...
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Hot Season
Here in Israel, the temperatures have topped 100 degrees. Even hotter is the police blotter, which recorded the spasms of violence on back-to-back days last week that still dominates the news and...
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Versions of Conversions
There are few things that are not politicized in Israel and none more so than the interface of religion and state. Add to that society’s tendency to see every disagreement as a tempest and every...
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The Community
“Hillel said: do not separate from the community” (Avot 2:4). So where is the American Jewish community on the matter of the Iran nuclear deal? In truth, better than expected, notwithstanding the noisy...
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The Denial
President Obama’s insistence that he is not an “anti-Semite” may not be remembered as vividly as President Nixon’s “I am not a crook,” if only because Nixon said his just once while Obama has had to...
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The Sobbing Mother of Sisera
Is there a more peculiar intruder into our Rosh Hashana service than the mother of Sisera, the Canaanite general who fought against Devorah and Barak, and who is the reference point for so many of our...
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G-d’s Hand in History
(The following was published as an Op-ed in the Jewish Press, on September 11, 2015 – RSP) Fourteen years ago today the clenched fist of Arab-Islamic terror smashed into the United States of America,...
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The Race
In America, the saying goes, anyone can grow up to be president. Well, “anyone” did, and now it seems like everyone else wants to try. One of Barack Obama’s few accomplishments as president is that he...
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Grim Calculus
The land and people of Israel are again experiencing one of those spasmic eruptions of Arab violence that are always a rude awakening to the complacent. Too many Arabs feel unrestrained enough to...
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Exploitation
On the car radio the other day, I listened to an interesting debate between Dennis Prager (on his show) and someone named Jay Michaelson who writes for the Forward and other liberal organs. Michaelson...
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The Inanities of John Kerry
It would be unfair to think ill of John Kerry because he is the grandson of an apostate Jew, who changed his name from Cohen to Kerry and pretended to be an Irish Catholic, even if such a pedigree has...
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