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The Blog of Garnel Ironheart: Guest Post - The Story of Irena Sendler
This piece comes from Simcha at TargetSplash and tells the story of a nearly forgotten hero of the Shoah. It is reproduced here with his permission:The Nearly Forgotten Story of Irena SendlerMemorial ceremonies recently held in remembrance of the Warsaw ...
Dateline: 2013-05-02 12:06am -07:00T (420 words)
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The Blog of Garnel Ironheart: Just Like Everyone Else
Hat Tip: The Rebbitzen's HusbandSometimes things happen that just make you wonder: what was this guy thinking? As a follow up to the previous post, I would like to discuss this article from The Forward which deals with another Morethodox rabbi who, caugh...
Dateline: 2013-04-30 1:36am -07:00T (819 words)
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The Blog of Garnel Ironheart: The Obsession Continues
Every Jewish group these days seems to have its own obsession, its own focus which defines how it achieves its self-imagined holiness and dveikus. For some in the Torah world it's a never-ending fascination with emulating the Taliban and creating a socie...
Dateline: 2013-04-28 1:36am -07:00T (723 words)
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The Blog of Garnel Ironheart: Majority Rules?
One of the arguments raised by Rav Tzadok, may he remain healthy and successful, against legitimizing metzitzah b'peh was that the vast majority of poskim oppose anything other than direct MBP and that all contemporary poskim oppose it.Now leave aside tha...
Dateline: 2013-04-23 8:36am -07:00T (709 words)
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The Blog of Garnel Ironheart: The Fundamental Jewish Value
The problem with any revolution or movement based on novel idea or single principle is that with time dedication to that position overshadows a commitment to the greater values that lead to its development.How many mass movements have become the victim of...
Dateline: 2013-04-21 1:06am -07:00T (1364 words)
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The Blog of Garnel Ironheart: Liar, Liar, Shtreiml On Fire
The ongoing debate over the medical safety and halachic necessity of metzitzah b'peh (MBP) in the Jewish world is not showing signs of abating any time soon. Every time another report of an infant infected with herpes on his male organ most likely as the...
Dateline: 2013-04-19 1:51am -07:00T (1477 words)
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The Blog of Garnel Ironheart: The Second "W" Isn't For Wrestling"
Years ago I met a Reform convert who told me that she liked putting on tefillin every day because it made her feel closer to God while praying. Shortly after I had the opportunity to see her in her gear and made some observations. For one thing she wore...
Dateline: 2013-04-18 8:36am -07:00T (891 words)
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The Blog of Garnel Ironheart: Are There No Real Good Guys Left?
There have been two Battlestar Galactica series on television. The first ran in the late 1970's, the second in the early 2000's. Both shared a basic premise in common - the twelve tribes of humanity lived somewhere out in space on twelve planets, each o...
Dateline: 2013-04-15 7:51am -07:00T (1053 words)
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The Blog of Garnel Ironheart: Maybe If They Treated Seriously
I've written before about why many in the frum community don't observe Yom HaShoah in any serious fashion. To be absolutely clear it's not because of any intent for disrespect for those who died or suffered but survived in that horrible, horrible time. ...
Dateline: 2013-04-11 2:51am -07:00T (996 words)
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The Blog of Garnel Ironheart: No, Rav Sternbuch, We Love Our Religion
Rav Moshe Sternbuch, leader of the staunchly anti-Israel Eidah Charedit, recently added his sagacious voice to the growing number of Chareidi leaders protesting the imminent implementation of the universal draft in Israel. Some of what he said was predic...
Dateline: 2013-04-09 8:06am -07:00T (1137 words)
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The Blog of Garnel Ironheart: Doing It Without Hatred
As plans slowly move forward to implement a universal army draft in Israel it's interesting to watch two definitive sides form in response.One side is that of the Chareidi leadership and its PR folks. Their response has been vigorous, viscious and self-r...
Dateline: 2013-04-08 7:21am -07:00T (787 words)
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The Blog of Garnel Ironheart: Pesach And The National Imperative
Although we tend to focus on yetzias Mitzrayim during the Pesach celebrations it is important to remember that one of the underlying features of the entire narrative is the transformation of our ancestors from an ethnic group within the larger Egyptian so...
Dateline: 2013-03-24 1:05am -07:00T (314 words)
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