231 posts categorized "Blogs"

March 18, 2007: Vos Iz Neias And The "McDonalds Bagel Boycott"
Comments: 6 | Categories: Blogs
Vos Iz Neias has an item claiming British Jews are planning a boycott of McDonalds. Why? Because it advertises bagel sandwiches made with ham and pork. VosIzNeais doesn't normally link to its sources, although this post did note it came...

March 8, 2007: RenReb In The News
Comments: 0 | Categories: Blogs
JBlogger RenegadeRebbetzin (better known as RenReb) gets a nice mention in a Jewish Week article on the changing status of rabbis' wives.

February 19, 2007: The Frivolous Suit Against OrthoMom and Google
Comments: 4 | Categories: Blogs
As most of you probably know, Orthomom's blog host (Blogger, owned by Goggle) is being sued by an elected official upset with comments left about her on Orthomom's blog. This is a frivolous suit, so ridiculous that I did not...

February 5, 2007: If We Are Down
Comments: 1 | Categories: Blogs
If this blog is down, or if it does not seem to be updated, go to the Failed Messiah backup site: http://failedmessiah.wordpress.com/

January 29, 2007: More On Former President Carter
Comments: 2 | Categories: Blogs , Jewish Leadership
Neal Sher, the former Justice Department official who recently released damaging evidence on former President Carter's "ethics," blogs over at PoliticalMavens.com, where he writes more about what many say is our worst ex-President ever. UPDATE: A commenter is quick to...

January 29, 2007: New J-Blog
Comments: 0 | Categories: Blogs
Steven I. Weiss has launched a new subdivision, so to speak – a new blog under his Canonist banner. Written by Menachem Wecker, "Iconia," SIW writes, "is a blog about the intersection of religion and art… It's the first of...

January 24, 2007: Did Dennis Prager Praise A Plagiarist? A Paid Hack?
Comments: 4 | Categories: Blogs , Media & Media Criticism
If Luke Ford is correct, the answer is yes. Luke has a great new site design, too.

January 22, 2007: Censorship In The JBlogisphere
Comments: 5 | Categories: Blogs , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , MO & Chardal , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Rabbi Yakov Horowitz writes about his website, which he recently reconfigured to function as a blog: …After giving it some thought, I decided not remove any of the negative comments. (For the record, I removed the posts that mentioned people’s...

January 18, 2007: Lakewood Internet Ban Spreads To Brooklyn
Comments: 18 | Categories: Blogs , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Rabbi Gershon Tannenbaum writes in the Jewish Press: More than 120 rabbis, dayanim, heads of yeshivos and principals of girls schools in Boro Park and Flatbush, met on Sunday, Asarah B’Teves, December 31, to implement a takanah to counteract the...

January 11, 2007: Looking At Blogs From The Outside In
Comments: 1 | Categories: Blogs
Larry Gordon, the editor of the Five Towns Jewish Times writes: …These days perhaps one of the most widely read but also controversial frum bloggers is Unorthodox Jew. UOJ, as he is known, identifies himself as an attorney with a...

January 10, 2007: Rabbi Avi Shafran On Abuse And Blogs
Comments: 3 | Categories: Blogs , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
The JTA reports: "[The Awareness Center]´s site is very valuable," said Rabbi Yosef Blau, religious adviser at Yeshiva University and a vocal advocate for victims of rabbinic sexual abuse and other forms of sexual misconduct. "Since you can´t get people...

January 8, 2007: More On Plagiarism and DovBear
Comments: 8 | Categories: Blogs
I wondered why, in the nearly two weeks that passed since DovBear was caught plagiarizing 12 in twelve posts, why none of his many critics could find further examples of word theft. Blogger, screenwriter and DB uber critic Robert Avrech...

January 7, 2007: New (Italian) JBlog
Comments: 2 | Categories: Blogs
Just got word of a new JBlog. It's written by an Italian Jew, in Italian, and it mentions … FailedMessiah.com: Failed Messiah è il blog di Shmarya Rosenberg, un ex Chabad che segue molto da vicino le vicende dell'ortodossia, non...

December 26, 2006: Jewish Week on Jewish Concubines
Comments: 27 | Categories: Blogs , Religion, Religion & State
Plegish.blogspot.com is covered in this brief article from the NY Jewish Week. (It seems the JW misspelled the blog's url. Wonder if this was intentional?) Rabbi Avi Shafran, Agudath Israel's spokesman, says this about pilegish:While conceding that the practice is...

December 25, 2006: DovBear Apologizes
Comments: 7 | Categories: Blogs
As some of you may know, an anonymous blogger has found instances of plagiarism committed by uber-JBlogger DovBear. DovBear has apologized and corrected many of the 14 posts in question. (At least two examples given by DB's antagonist were not...

December 24, 2006: Nittlenacht 2006: If Blogs Existed 2000 Years Ago
Comments: 27 | Categories: Blogs , History , Religion, Religion & State
It's often stated that blogs are the modern day equivalent of pamphlets, like those (largely anonymous) pamphlets we know today as the Federalist Papers. I wonder what the world would look like today if blogs and the Internet had existed...

December 24, 2006: Israel's NY Consulate Opens Blog
Comments: 2 | Categories: Blogs , Israel
Too little, too controlled and waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too late. Israel's NY Consulate has entered the world of blogging. And what the hell is up with that stupid name?

November 23, 2006: Blogging The Agudah Convention
Comments: 6 | Categories: Blogs , Haredim
This is an open thread for comments from and about the Agudath Israel convention. If you're there, please drop us a note and tell us what's happening. [And, yes, Agudah – that means you've got bloggers in your midst.]

November 7, 2006: Agudah and Dissent
Comments: 6 | Categories: Blogs , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership
A while back I noted UOJ's request to speak at Agudath Israel's annual convention to rebut the leadership's attack on blogs and that leadership's handling of the abuse issue. Agudah's spokesperson, Rabbi Avi Shafran, turned UOJ down, even though allowing...

October 16, 2006: Slow Loading
Comments: 2 | Categories: Blogs
I've removed most of the sidebar ads to try to speed up page loading. I'll reinstate as things improve.

September 29, 2006: Rabbi Gil Student and the Atheist
Comments: 10 | Categories: Blogs , Books , Haredim , Oorah Kars4Kids , Outreach , Religion, Religion & State
Rabbi Gil Student notes that he refused to run an ad for Sam Harris's new atheist book, and that refusal made yesterday's Wall Street Journal as part of an article on the book's promotion. Harris is a strong spokesman for...

September 5, 2006: Where For Art Thou, Lamedzayin?
Comments: 7 | Categories: Blogs
The 37th Tzaddik has suddenly disappeared. Anybody know what happened to him?

September 3, 2006: Yiddish Wikipedia
Comments: 1 | Categories: Blogs
Wikipedia in Yiddish.

August 25, 2006: GUEST POST: Rabbinic Reasoning and Bugs In Vegetables – "It's all nonsense based on ignorance NOT Torah NOT halacha"
Comments: 20 | Categories: Blogs , Guest Posts , Haredim , Kosher Business? , MO & Chardal
By JewishWhistleBlower Shmarya, I noticed your post and the discussion on Hirhurim re: the article by Bleich and have not had a chance to comment. Feel free to do some research and correct/utilize my commentary below, I unlike others, do...

August 23, 2006: The Truth v. Hasidic Hagiography
Comments: 7 | Categories: Blogs , Chabad , Chabad History , History
The Forward has picked up on the controversy surrounding David Assaf's new book on the hasidic movement, noting, in this review by Allen Nadler, that the book is surprisingly difficult to purchase unless you have an in with a bookseller....

August 22, 2006: GUEST POST: The Sad Situation Of The Jewish People
Comments: 1 | Categories: Blogs , Guest Posts , Jewish Leadership
By Ze'ev Atlas How sad is the situation of the Jewish people! The right wing secularists believe that they could resolve all the problems with military and political force, despite the clear evidence to the contrary from the last war....

August 22, 2006: PoliticalMavens.com
Comments: 1 | Categories: Blogs
A new group blog with a who's who listing of academic, political and cultural posters has just launched – PoliticalMavens.com. As American politics heats up for the Fall races, and with the continuing problems with Iran and Hezbollah, this should...

August 20, 2006: AJHistory Shuts Down
Comments: 0 | Categories: Blogs , History
On a sad note, perhaps the best JBlog going is shutting down. Menachem Butler's AJHistory has seen its last post. Why? Because Menachem starts grad school next month. One could spend hundreds of enjoyable hours reading through Menachem's posts and...

August 16, 2006: He's Baaaaaaaaaaaack
Comments: 0 | Categories: Blogs , Circumcision , Haredim
Pioneering dissident hasidic blogger Shreimel has returned to blogging after a 10 month hiatus with a detailed post on the metzitza be peh controversy. [Hat tip: S. Mechaberet.]

August 7, 2006: Reuters Photographer Caught Faking More War Photos, Is Fired
Comments: 2 | Categories: Blogs , Current Affairs , Israel
Ynet reports more American bloggers have caught Reuters photographer Adnan Hajj faking war pictures that hurt Israel. In response Reuters has pulled the pictures and reportedly fired Hajj.

August 7, 2006: What The Meaning Of Haredi Is
Comments: 9 | Categories: Blogs , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim
David Kelsey has a thought provoking piece posted on Jewschool regarding the concerted effort to out anonymous blogger UnOrthodox Jew. Kelsey writes: If you succeed in gaining traction and a significant following in the ultra-Orthodox world, [exposing haredi corruption] we...

August 7, 2006: TORAH CODES REVEAL IDENTITY OF ANONYMOUS BLOGGER – UnOrthodox Jew "Is Gil Student"
Comments: 5 | Categories: Blogs , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , PARODY & SATIRE

August 6, 2006: Bloggers Catch Reuters With Doctored Anti-Israel Photo
Comments: 0 | Categories: Blogs , Israel
Charles Johnson of LittleGreenFootballs and a crew of other American bloggers (including a blog of professional sports photographers!) have caught a Reuters photographer doctoring photos in PhotoShop to make Israel look bad. Reuters has pulled the lead photo from this...

August 4, 2006: War Blog
Comments: 0 | Categories: Blogs , Israel
As I noted last week, Tzemach Atlas has been photo-blogging the war. Spend a few minutes to check it out.

July 30, 2006: Baruch Dayan HaEmet (Hitler's Pope? cont.)
Comments: 0 | Categories: Blogs , Church & Holocaust , History , Religion, Religion & State
The New York Times reports: Alexander Safran, the former chief rabbi of Romania who tried to prevent the deportation of Jews by his country’s pro-Nazi regime during World War II, died on Thursday at his home here. He was 95.…...

July 28, 2006: Sir Martin Gilbert Responds
Comments: 10 | Categories: Blogs , Church & Holocaust , History , Religion, Religion & State
Sir Martin Gilbert was kind enough to respond to challenges posed by FailedMessiah.com readers, including DovBear. With his permission, his response: One of your readers writes to you (entirely erroneously in my view): "Churchill knew about the dangers the Jewish...

July 26, 2006: The Pope and the Holocaust: A (Partial) Response To Dovbear [UPDATED 7-28-06]
Comments: 62 | Categories: Blogs , Church & Holocaust , History , Religion, Religion & State
DovBear asks why I carry a brief for Pope Pius XII and the Church. I do not. I simply seek the truth, and the truth in this case supports the Church. I made scans of (part of) Sir Martin Gilbert's...

July 25, 2006: Hitler's Pope – No Way, Says Sir Martin Gilbert
Comments: 11 | Categories: Blogs , Church & Holocaust , History , Religion, Religion & State
Sir Martin Gilbert has a review [not online as of yet] of Rabbi David Dalin's The Myth of Hitler's Pope in the June/July American Spectator. Gilbert strongly endorses the book and, in several pages of terse prose brings case after...

July 12, 2006: Down
Comments: 0 | Categories: Blogs
As many of you noted, we and every other blog hosted by TypePad were down most of today. This time the outage lasted more than 9 hours. TypePad has yet to post an explanation. Its so-called "Status Blog" at first...

June 23, 2006: New JBlog
Comments: 0 | Categories: Blogs , Israel
New Jerusalem-based JBlog, Batel Beshishim. One post on Chabad, one post on meeting the victims of a terror attack only days (in one case, one day) before their deaths.

June 7, 2006: New JBlog
Comments: 0 | Categories: Blogs
A frum scientist vents on neandershort.

June 5, 2006: Hitler's Pope? No Way, Says Jewish Reporting Of That Time
Comments: 32 | Categories: Blogs , Church & Holocaust , History , Religion, Religion & State
Dimitri Cavalli. a scholar working on a book about Pope Pius Xll, quotes a number of contemporaneous reports from Jewish media praising Pius Xll: In March 1939, many Jewish newspapers in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Jerusalem welcomed...

May 31, 2006: Google Launches Hebrew Gmail
Comments: 1 | Categories: Blogs , Israel
That's right, Google launches Hebrew Gmail.

May 17, 2006: DovBear: Spot On Kolko, Abuse And Gedolim
Comments: 4 | Categories: Blogs , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Jewish Leadership
DovBear writes: Rabbi Wachsman screams and sputters about this because he knows the next stupid remarks reproduced on a blog for the amusment of the masses might be one of his own. That's what worries him. Not child molesters. Again,...

May 11, 2006: New J-Blog
Comments: 0 | Categories: Blogs
New J-Blog: Rapunzel. Technorati Tags: blogs, Chabad, jewish

May 3, 2006: The Church And The Holocaust
Comments: 20 | Categories: Blogs , Church & Holocaust , History , Religion, Religion & State
Ha'aretz reports: Government sources have called statements made by a senior Vatican official condemning the silence of the Holy See during the Holocaust "unprecedented." 

Sources in Jerusalem said it is still too early to tell whether the statements made Tuesday...

May 2, 2006: TypePad
Comments: 1 | Categories: Blogs
TypePad's entire service went down this afternoon. All blogs, everything, down. Even their status weblog, hosted remotely from TypePad's service and the blogs that use it, went down. If you have trouble accessing this site or leaving comments, this is...

April 26, 2006: Saved By A Priest
Comments: 16 | Categories: Blogs , Church & Holocaust , History , Religion, Religion & State
Joe Schick writes: Later, in 1943, the surviving members of my mother's family were forced to flee France for Italy. By then, my mother's mother was pregnant with her first child, and a Catholic priest arranged for refuge for the...

April 25, 2006: A Question For Yom HaShoah
Comments: 5 | Categories: Blogs , Church & Holocaust , History , Religion, Religion & State
Does anyone know what attempts, if any, were made to save mentally ill, disabled and retarded Jews during the Holocaust? We know of rescues of a few important people, rabbis and community leaders. Were any disabled or retarded people rescued?...

March 30, 2006: How To Navigate This Site
Comments: 0 | Categories: Blogs
Just a quick post to explain site navigation. Each post is is indexed both by date and by category. Category links are on the right side of this page, as are archive links. So you can search by date for...

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