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DovBear: Is Kolel a Mental Disorder?
by @azigra
The Jerusalem Post carried the following
story on Sunday:
Finance Minister
Yair Lapid said Thursday the harshest cuts in his controversial budget were
aimed at haredim in hopes of pushing them into the labor force. “I
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Dateline: 2013-05-22 8:15am -07:00T (339 words)
 
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DovBear: WOW and their motives
Some people say they can see that the WOW have no real interest in performing mitzvot because WOW only care about one mitzvah, namely the mitzvah of wearing a talis; moreover they only care about this one mitzvah when in can be performed in public.
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Dateline: 2013-05-21 9:00pm -07:00T (389 words)
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DovBear: Some more arguments on behalf of women who wish to wear talitot
From where I sit the argument over women wearing talitot is not like an argument over the kashrus of pig meat, as some have tried to characterize it, but more like an argument over whether or not women should listen to the shofar or take a lulav. ...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 11:00am -07:00T (922 words)
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DovBear: My belief in God
On the subject of belief, my belief anyway, I've always tried to be clear. But the comments below and on Twitter show me I haven't succeeded. So let's try again.
As the dictionary defines it, belief is a state or habit of the mind. Sometimes, b...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 1:00pm -07:00T (346 words)
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DovBear: Everything you need for shavuot
What did we actually get at Sinai?
5/14/10: All time favorite post.
Demolishing dumb arguments (The mass revelation argument for the Torah's Historical Veracity)
2/20/06 Another post I'd put in the top 10
Facts and Myths
8/3/07 The first myt...
Dateline: 2013-05-14 11:00am -07:00T (362 words)
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DovBear: Shul casting call
You're opening a new shul. Along with a rabbi to make speeches and a control-freak to serve as gabbai what are some of the roles that must be filled if your shul is going to feel "authentic?" My list:
A guy to bang a table to remind people to...
Dateline: 2013-05-13 8:45am -07:00T (441 words)
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DovBear: The Badeken Battle
Here's Wikipedia explaining the badeken ritual
Badeken, Bedeken, Badekenish, or Bedekung (Yiddish: ב×ַדעקן badekn, lit. covering), is the ceremony where the groom veils the bride in a Jewish wedding.
Just prior to the actual wedding ce...
Dateline: 2013-05-10 9:15am -07:00T (469 words)
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DovBear: Great Wedding Video
Huge WOW factor here. Only bad thing I can say is the song reminds me of Catholics in general and the Sopranos in particular. #syncretism
Another great:
http://dovbear.blogspot.com/2009/01/beautiful-jewish-wedding-video.html
And then we hav...
Dateline: 2013-05-09 12:00pm -07:00T (34 words)
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DovBear: Where do Midrashim Come From?
Related
How did Midrash develop? A case study ("And the Waters Split")
A proof that tannaim created midrashim?
Mathew's Midrash
Another Christian Midrash (Duteronomy 30:12/13
Where do Midrashim Come From?
"The second account of the C...
Dateline: 2013-05-09 12:00pm -07:00T (468 words)
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DovBear: It's the End of the(ir) World as they know it... thank G-d.
A GUEST POST BY FOZZIE BEAR
It is perhaps one of the most bizarre comments ever made by a Haredi spokesman and yet it went largely un-noticed. The reason it went un-noticed is that, bizarre as it this comment, it is much less newsworthy that t...
Dateline: 2013-05-09 10:45am -07:00T (369 words)
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DovBear: Lakewood Lies
Now this is funny. As bluke reports, one of the honchos at the Lakewood Yeshiva is telling people that his school doesn't really insist that its student be Jews:
Moshe Gleiberman, vice president of administration at Beth Medrash Govoha, said... th...
Dateline: 2013-05-08 9:00am -07:00T (274 words)
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DovBear: Mordechai Anilievitcz,
A hero is a man who does what he can.May his neshama have an aliya.
TODAY IN JEWISH HISTORY: May 8, 1943. Mordechai Anilievitcz, the leader of the Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto 1943 took his own life, along with his girlfriend Mira Fuc...
Dateline: 2013-05-07 8:45pm -07:00T (82 words)
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DovBear: Two on psychics and other despicable frauds
Sylvia Browne is a liar, like all psychics
In November 2004 Amanda Bery's's mother, Louwana Miller, appeared on Montel Williams show with psychic Sylvia Browne. Browne told Miller that her daughter was dead.
Hat tip Cousin Oliver
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Dateline: 2013-05-07 1:15pm -07:00T (214 words)
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DovBear: Segulot and me
There's a heiliga FB member who thinks I am a horrible, no-good hater of God and Judaism because I seek to undermine everyone's belief in segulot. Here is what he wrote:
So there are people who look for shortcuts, i.e. segulos... so what? Better that...
Dateline: 2013-05-07 1:15pm -07:00T (374 words)
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DovBear: A New Low in Modesty
@azigra
A deeply disturbing video has come to light recently of two well known rabbinical wives. The fact they would both so brazenly disrespect their husbands and the Torah they stand for should be of grave concern to all Yarei Shomayim. Think of ...
Dateline: 2013-05-06 10:00am -07:00T (141 words)
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