Remember the thousands of converts who had their conversions revoked by haredi rabbis sitting on the Rabbinate's High Rabbinic Court?
Well, official marriage registrars across Israel – rabbis all – are now refusing to register the marriages of these poor people.
Worse yet…
The Discovery Institute blog has a horrible post attacking Richard Dawkins for calling Shmuley Boteach "Hitler." Is this true?
And what "code" would that be, you ask?
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Here's something you didn't learn in Hebrew school…
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Herzl came in 4th. Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson came in 3rd. Who came in 1st and 2nd?
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In what the Jewish Week calls, "an unusually bold move," the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) has…
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A group of Neturei Karta members were demonstrating against the State of Israel in Jerusalem on Yom HaZikaron, the day of remembrance for fallen Israeli soldiers.
A non-haredi man carrying an Israeli flag approached the area – near Kikar Shabbat, Sabbath Square – where Neturei Karta was demonstrating.
What happened next?
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Please say Tehillim for Naftali ben Gila, one of the students wounded in the Mercaz HaRav shootings whose condition is drastically worsening.…
He suffered a stroke yesterday...15 yrs old.
A report from the NYC Department of Health points out a problem with Orthodox Judaism – hand washing.
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The Forward: "The indefatigable foe of ultra-Orthodox excess…"
The Forward: "The indictments were first reported on the blog FailedMessiah."
Talkline Radio Network: Shmarya Rosenberg of FailedMessiah.com interviewed on the Talkline Radio Network's Mamash Radio Show. Topic: Rabbinic responses to Ethiopian Jewry.
The London Jewish Chronicle: "…Shmarya Rosenberg muses on religious racism…"
Conservative Columnist David Klinghoffer: "…[T]he consistently sour but readable blog FailedMessiah.com…"
