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Beyond BT: The Great BTs Behind The Recent Women’s Prayer Gathering
Jonathan Rosenblum has a great column this week called the The Feminist Story the Media Missed at the Kotel. He chronicles the planned peaceful prayer gathering of women and girls across the national religious-haredi spectrum that occurred on Rosh Chodesh...
Dateline: 2013-05-19 10:06pm -07:00T (460 words)
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Beyond BT: Shavuos Links
OU
YU
Aish
Chabad
Torah.org
Hirhurim...
Dateline: 2013-05-13 10:21pm -07:00T (1 words)
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Beyond BT: The Ramchal on the Yomim Tovim
[5] The Highest Wisdom also decreed to give Israel additional sanctity by granting them holy days other than Shabbos, when the Jew receives various levels of holiness. None of these holy days, however, have as much Influence and sanctity as Shabbos.
The d...
Dateline: 2013-05-12 10:06pm -07:00T (540 words)
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Beyond BT: Links for 5/9 – Shul on Shavuos, Creative Charedi BTs, Hidden Structure of the Ten Commandments
Setting Up Your Shul for Shavuos.
The Black-Hat Underground – a Community of Creative Charedi Baalei Teshuva
The Hidden Structure of the Ten Commandments...
Dateline: 2013-05-09 2:36am -07:00T (23 words)
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Beyond BT: Are You Still A BT?
In common parlance, a BT is someone who became observant later in life. By that measurement, once a BT, always a BT. This usually means that we have to handle delicate situations with non-frum relatives, have lived a more secular life at some point, and w...
Dateline: 2013-05-07 10:21pm -07:00T (262 words)
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Beyond BT: All Dressed Up…
Years back, as I was beginning to become more observant, I had the opportunity to learn for a few months at a Yeshiva in Yerushalayim. I was fortunate to have found a chavrusah who was a great guy and at a similar stage in life; becoming more observant, t...
Dateline: 2013-05-07 2:21am -07:00T (435 words)
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Beyond BT: The Primacy of Torah and Mesorah
In line with my work at my School Management Software company, InfoGrasp, I had the privilege of attending the Torah Umesorah convention at the Split Rock Resort in the Poconos this past Shabbos. It was a wonderful experience of learning, shmoozing, shar...
Dateline: 2013-05-05 10:06pm -07:00T (754 words)
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Beyond BT: Links for 5/2/2013 – Shuls and Baseball, Black Hatter Bias, Becoming Frum
10 Reasons Your Shul Should Participate in a Baseball League
Accepting Our Own: The Bias Against Black-Hatters
Becoming Frum: How Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox Judaism...
Dateline: 2013-05-01 11:06pm -07:00T (27 words)
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Beyond BT: Have You Ever Read or Recommended “This is My G-d” By Herman Wouk?
Although dated February 21, 2012, we just recently stumbled upon this article, Modern Times which describes the publication of Herman Wouk’s wildly popular This Is My G-d in 1959.
Rabbi Yitzchak Kirzner zt”l recommended this book for a first e...
Dateline: 2013-05-01 5:06am -07:00T (82 words)
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Beyond BT: Why Not Get Yourself an Internet Parsha Rebbe
Many observant Jews believe in the primacy of Torah and the necessity to never stop learning and growing. However, it’s often hard to find the right class at the right time by the right teacher. If you’re looking to learn the Parsha, your prob...
Dateline: 2013-04-30 4:06am -07:00T (283 words)
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Beyond BT: Lag Ba’omer, Rebbe Akivah, and Kabbalah
By Rabbi Tzadok Cable
As we cross over the midway point of Sefiras Ha’omer we approach the milestone of Lag Ba’omer – the 33rd day of the Omer. What significance lies within this special day and what connection does it have to the days of Sefira...
Dateline: 2013-04-28 10:36pm -07:00T (2761 words)
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Beyond BT: Links for 4/25 – Successful Shul Dinners, Studying Orthodox Education, Koreans Love the Talmud
Running a Successful Shul Dinner: Between getting an honoree, a caterer, a journal, and short speeches, it’s not easy, but it’s a great event for fundraising and achdus.
Orthodox Schooling: What Do We Know?: YU’s Azrieli School of Jewish...
Dateline: 2013-04-25 7:05am -07:00T (92 words)
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Beyond BT: How Do You Stop a Baal Teshuva Back Slide?
By Michael
For a few months now I been having doubts, and I don’t know why, I think one of the main things that has really been bothering me is seeing so many orthodox sects, not get along with each other, like Satmar, Chabad, non-Chassidus. And so ...
Dateline: 2013-04-24 3:21am -07:00T (122 words)
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Beyond BT: How the Charedi and Modern Worlds Can Learn to Appreciate Each Other
When our children were young, we would buy their Shabbos clothes in Willamsburg. As we entered the neighborhood, I was amazed at the number of chesed activities that were being conducted by the children and the posters for shiurim, drashos and commuity ev...
Dateline: 2013-04-23 3:36am -07:00T (1461 words)
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Beyond BT: Thoughts Form a Mekarev in the Field
By Rabbi Meir Goldberg
Reprinted with permission of Mishpacha Magazine
It was with great enthusiasm that I eagerly read the recent edition of Klal Perspectives, kiruv edition. After reading many of the articles and especially the responses by R’ Adl...
Dateline: 2013-04-22 4:06am -07:00T (2698 words)
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