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Emes Ve-Emunah: Charedi Extremists and the Tsarnaev Brothers
Extremist Charedi confronting an officer at one of their many protestsThe comparison between the terrorist Tsarnaev brothers and Charedim in Israel who commit violent acts during public demonstrations and protest is apt. Most people know what happened rec...
Dateline: 2013-05-24 12:45am -07:00T (758 words)
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Emes Ve-Emunah: Targeting Groups for Extra Scrutiny
Targeted: Charedi Yeshivos like MirI can’t think of too many things more disgustingly discriminatory than a government agency singling out a group for special scrutiny. The Internal Revenue Service has been found to be doing exactly that. Conservative p...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 9:45am -07:00T (494 words)
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Emes Ve-Emunah: And the Bashing Continues...
Rabbi Avraham EdelsteinRabbi Avraham Edelstein seems like a nice enough fellow. He is the founder and director of Ner LeElef, an organization that trains people for outreach. That is a good thing and something I support. I am however dismayed by an artic...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 9:30am -07:00T (1250 words)
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Emes Ve-Emunah: Intermarried Rabbis
Reform Rabbi Ellen Lippmann - Photo credit: Ha'aretzI am not one to criticize the Reform Movement. Not because I think they are beyond criticism. But because they are so out of my orbit of mandatory ritual - that any criticism would be entirely meaningles...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 9:45am -07:00T (1002 words)
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Emes Ve-Emunah: Ending Zealotry in the Name of God
Sometimes I just want to explode! I keep reading stuff about how some people believe they are foreordained by God to be His messengers. As such they feel they have a right to do whatever it takes to see that His will is done. His will… according the be...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 10:30am -07:00T (1302 words)
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Emes Ve-Emunah: Rabbi Grylak: Oops - Never Mind!
Typical Yeshiva Beis HaMedrash Once again I am disappointed. A few months ago in a moment of reflective candor - Mishpacha Magazine Editor in Chief, Rabbi Moshe Grylak, put aside the rancor that so often characterizes the Charedi response to the issues n...
Dateline: 2013-05-19 10:00am -07:00T (1111 words)
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Emes Ve-Emunah: A Crack in The Wall
Yair Lapid and Aryeh Deri - Photo Credit: Arutz ShevaThere are two major issues that the Charedi world in Israel is now being confronted with. One is the draft. The other is the funding of their schools. The new government has promised to severely reduce ...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 8:45am -07:00T (1095 words)
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Emes Ve-Emunah: A Lesson to Learn
Tonight we begin the Yom Tov of Shavuos. This is the anniversary of the day the Torah was given to us at Mount Sinai. Many people have the custom to stay up all night and study it in honor of that occasion. It is symbolized by the giving of the Aseres HaD...
Dateline: 2013-05-14 10:45am -07:00T (583 words)
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Emes Ve-Emunah: Will There Be an Apology?
Among those pictured in a 2010 photo are many of BMG's Roshei YeshivaThe unexpected happened. Yosef Kolko was on trial for sexually abusing a boy between the ages of 11 and 14 in religious camp where he was a counselor. He changed his plea to guilty.The ...
Dateline: 2013-05-14 9:30am -07:00T (517 words)
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Emes Ve-Emunah: The Maharat: Wonderful Achievement - Bad Idea
Photo Credit - Yeshivat Maharat via the ForwardWhen I was a young man around the time I was studying for Semicha at the Hebrew Theological College, I had written article in a now defunct local Jewish magazine, the Sentinel. It was in response to a scathin...
Dateline: 2013-05-13 10:30am -07:00T (1256 words)
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Emes Ve-Emunah: Will the Real Charedi Please Stand Up?
Typical Charedi Yeshiva StudentsLast Thursday, someone by the name of T. Felik wrote an essay on Matzav about Rabbi Lipman that makes Rav Feldman’s initial reaction to him mild by comparison. Since then R’ Feldman apologized for his characterization o...
Dateline: 2013-05-12 9:15am -07:00T (960 words)
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Emes Ve-Emunah: Where is the Wisdom?
Photo Credit: Yoav Dudkevich/Jewish PressA short while ago I wrote a post lamenting the fact that there are actually people in Israel who refuse to wear a kipa at their own wedding. They refuse to in any way identify with observant Jewry. After last Frid...
Dateline: 2013-05-11 9:00pm -07:00T (665 words)
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Emes Ve-Emunah: My Last Married Mikveh
Guest Post by AnonymousThe following is a guest post by a victim of domestic abuse. For personal reasons the author has chosen to remain anonymous. She is a religious woman albeit not an Orthodox one. By that I mean that she takes her Judaism seriously â€...
Dateline: 2013-05-10 6:00am -07:00T (1093 words)
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Emes Ve-Emunah: Rav Aharon Feldman Apologizes
I am happy to report that according to Matzav, Rav Aharon Feldman, the Rosh HaYeshiva of Ner Israel has apologized for calling Rabbi Dov Lipman a Rasha. He did so after receiving a letter of explanation from Rabbi Lipman explaining that he was L'Shem Shom...
Dateline: 2013-05-09 9:45pm -07:00T (151 words)
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Emes Ve-Emunah: Doing the Right Thing for the Wrong Reason
WoW's Anat Hoffman being arrested at the Kotel - Photo credit - Ha'aretzMost people who read this blog know my attitude about the Women of the Wall (WoW). Let’s just say I am not a fan.That said, I don’t think there ought to be confrontation of any ty...
Dateline: 2013-05-09 10:15am -07:00T (1112 words)
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