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Emes Ve-Emunah: A Word about Sarah Palin
Mrs. Palin has just released her biography and is now on a book tour promoting her book Going Rouge.When she was announced by the McCain campaign as the Republican Vice Presidential candidate, I thought is was a stroke of genius at the time. She truly ene...
Dateline: 2009-11-20 9:45am PT (949 words)
 
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Emes Ve-Emunah: Abuse Survivors: Please Do Not Suffer Alone
By: Dr. Benzion Twerski and Rabbi Yakov Horowitz The Motti Borger tragedy haunts us all. I have devoted two blog posts to it. Much of what is written in the following essay I have either directly stated or alluded to. The issues this tragedy raises are of...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 1:45pm PT (939 words)
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Emes Ve-Emunah: Rubashkin - What Would the Steipler Say?
There are a lot of people who are upset at those of us who refuse to defend a religious Jew who was convicted of financial wrong doing. Sholom Rubashkin is being seen by many as a victim of anti-Semitism. The justifications for this attitude are varied an...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 10:00am PT (884 words)
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Emes Ve-Emunah: Defining Charedim and Modern Orthodox Jews
An article in Ha’aretz really got me to thinking about how we define ourselves as Jews. The article asks the question specifically about Charedim. But I think it is fair to ask it about all of us. I will limit my remarks to two groups: Charedim and Mode...
Dateline: 2009-11-18 9:30am PT (1310 words)
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Emes Ve-Emunah: Workshops or Ethics?
Yeshiva World News reports that the community of Lakewood held a workshop on how to do things legally:For three hours, a prestigious panel of legal and accounting experts offered observations and comments on a hypothetical scenario that brought to life pr...
Dateline: 2009-11-17 8:45am PT (797 words)
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Emes Ve-Emunah: A Tragedy and the Lessons to be Learned
About a week ago I wrote a post about suicide and depression warning of its dangers if it goes untreated. That post was generated by the very unfortunate incident reported in a New York Post article last week. A young Orthodox Jew - married just 48 hours ...
Dateline: 2009-11-16 9:45am PT (810 words)
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Emes Ve-Emunah: Success That is Breeding Failure
Once again, Jonathan Rosenblum hits the nail on the head in an article published in Mishpacha Magazine and republished on Cross-Currents. Although I’m not sure he intended it this way - the message cannot be clearer. It is something I write about consta...
Dateline: 2009-11-15 11:15am PT (979 words)
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Emes Ve-Emunah: Blood Libel or Justice?
The verdict is startling. Guilty on 86 of 91 counts federal fraud charges. So said a unanimous jury of Shalom Rubashkin’s peers yesterday.I am not here to pile on to this man’s travails. He is likely facing a very stiff price for his wrongdoing. And h...
Dateline: 2009-11-13 8:15am PT (997 words)
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Emes Ve-Emunah: Beam Me Up, Scotty
I never thought I would see anything like this on nationally broadcast television. But last night for the first time on CBS in a TV series entitled The Good Wife there was a drama involving Eruvei Chatzeros. Actually it was broadcast the night before but ...
Dateline: 2009-11-12 8:30am PT (782 words)
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Emes Ve-Emunah: Widening the Chasm
There has been another meeting of EJF - Eternal Jewish Family - headed by Rabbi Leib Tropper. And if one reads the list of attendees, it’s almost a who’s who of right wing Orthodox rabbinic leadership.Curiously there was also not a single Rav or Dayan...
Dateline: 2009-11-11 11:15am PT (1005 words)
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Emes Ve-Emunah: Prejudice against Charedim in the Workplace
There seems to be a lot of prejudice in Israel. At least in job market. Prejudice of any kind is abhorrent to me. Hating people based on faulty generalizations is morally reprehensible. This applies to all the above mentioned groups. But what concerns me ...
Dateline: 2009-11-10 11:45am PT (849 words)
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Emes Ve-Emunah: Rabbi Yosef and the Women of the Wall
One of today’s true Gedolim is Rav Ovadia Yosef - former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel and author of many volumes of Halacha. His encyclopedic knowledge is undeniable. In fact I would venture to guess that he is perhaps the most knowledgeable Gadol ali...
Dateline: 2009-11-09 8:15am PT (672 words)
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Emes Ve-Emunah: Depression and Suicide
Once again the subject of mental illness comes up.This time it hits us squarely in the pit of our collective stomachs as we read of a Chasan married just 48 hours earlier jumps to his death. Of course no one actually saw him jump. But the circumstantial e...
Dateline: 2009-11-08 11:30am PT (947 words)
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Emes Ve-Emunah: Is There Really a Reason to Be so Divisive?
One of the things that bother me about the divide between Charedim and Modern Orthodox Jews is the attitude that Charedim have about their own views versus those of others.It is more than just a disagreement between right and left; stringencies versus len...
Dateline: 2009-11-06 10:15am PT (544 words)
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Emes Ve-Emunah: When Yoel met Yael
I wish them nothing but happiness. The beautiful Ivanka (Yael) Trump married handsome Jared (Yoel Chaim) Kushner last week in what was probably one of the most talked about events of the year. This ‘merger’ between two of the wealthiest families in th...
Dateline: 2009-11-05 10:45am PT (1165 words)
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