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13 posts from April 9, 2006 - April 15, 2006

April 12, 2006: Remember Darfur At Your Seder
Comments: 0 | Categories: Refugees
Please click on image here to enlarge. Don't forget to remember the ongoing genocide in Darfur at your seder.

April 12, 2006: Shahar Smooha: The Man Who Lives To Bring Redemption
Comments: 2 | Categories: Chabad
A wonderful piece by Shahar Smooha in the Columbia Journalist: Three times in the last three years, Yosi Levi asked his rabbi if he should go back to Israel. The rabbi, who has been dead for 12 years now, each...

April 12, 2006: Rabbi Saul Berman: Bans Make A Mockery Out Of Judaism
Comments: 2 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Torah & Science
Rabbi Saul Berman of Edah on today's gedolim and bans: The current anti-scientific climate makes a mockery of Judaism's constant search for truth. The very idea that rabbis might excommunicate people for teaching that the world is more than 5766...

April 12, 2006: Did The Exodus Really Happen?
Comments: 8 | Categories: History
After explaining why the Torah's account of the Exodus does not fit the historical or archeological records, archeologist Stephen Rosenberg (no relation) writes: My proposal is that this miraculous account of the Exodus is describing a series of events that...

April 12, 2006: Chag Kasher v'Samayakh!
Comments: 1 |
Chag kasher v'samayakh to you all!

April 10, 2006: Haredim Threaten Riot: Release Haredi Child Murderer Or Jerusalem Will Burn!
Comments: 5 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
Haredim want the 19 year old haredi man who has admitted murdering his infant son by battering him, slamming him into a wall and biting him on the neck released from police custody tonight. If not, the haredi Kol Chai...

April 10, 2006: Chabad Power Struggle Continues - Messianist Event Draws Huge Crowd Welcoming Late Rebbe As Messiah
Comments: 4 | Categories: Chabad
Matthew Wagner of the Jerusalem Post reports: Dissenting camps within Chabad voiced mutual accusations a day after a huge Sunday night rally, entitled "Reception of the righteous messiah" drew 10,000 to Tel Aviv's Nokia Arena. "There was an amazing turnout,"...

April 10, 2006: More On Berel Lazar's Russian Citizenship Issues
Comments: 0 | Categories: Court Jews
The JTA has more detail on Chabad's "Chief Rabbi of Russia," Berel Lazar's citizenship issues. It seems Putin gave Lazar special citizenship in 2000, opening the door for Chabad a few days later to make Lazar "Chief Rabbi of Russia,"...

April 10, 2006: Haredim Find More Food To Forbid?
Comments: 13 | Categories: Haredim , History , Science
Rabbi Gil Student notes that Rabbi Yisroel Belsky, a haredi gadol (and, I must add, a nice man who has stayed out of most of the recent spate of bans) has banned Quinoa and Amaranth for Passover because he considers...

April 10, 2006: Treife Electric Shavers
Comments: 18 | Categories: Haredim , Torah & Science
KosherShaver.org is a website dedicated to publicizing the ruling of many gedolim that electric shavers with a lift and cut system (like Norelco) are not 'kosher' unless the lifters are removed. Rabbi Abadi refutes this (see the message board there)...

April 9, 2006: Could The Putin-Lazar Romance Be Over?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Court Jews
Haaretz is reporting that a Russian politician with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin has asked the Interior Ministry to investigate the citizenship of Chabad's "chief rabbi of Russia" Berel Lazar. Lazar holds US, Italian, Israel and Russian citizenship...

April 9, 2006: What Do The NYC Cops On The Street Think About The Boro Park Riot?
Comments: 7 | Categories: Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
What do the cops on the street think about the Boro Park riot? They think we're all a bunch of hondlers who bundle votes, buy politicians and get away with criminal misbehavior as a result – which isn't all that...

April 9, 2006: Did Rubashkin Bribe Upstate Satmar? Yudel Shain Says Yes
Comments: 4 | Categories: Kosher Scandal
Rabbi Yudel Shain, a well-known Lakewood kanoi and kashrut expert, is alleging that Rubashkin has bribed Rabbi Ahron Titelebaum, one of the two possible successors to the ailing Satmar Rebbe, in order to have his meat sold in Kiryat Yoel....

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