Friday, August 30, 2019

Fake Rabbis Then - Fake Rabbis Now - Some Things Never Change!

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The clever fake rabbis who made millions off of Prohibition - The 1920s liquor ban left a loophole for sacramental wine -- suddenly it p...
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Thursday, August 29, 2019

Many Orthodox Jews are dissatisfied with how Orthodoxy is practiced today and this will prompt change. “The 1990 National Jewish population survey indicated that ‘among those raised Orthodox, just 24 percent are still Orthodox.’”

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Orthodox Judaism is Changing: A Book Review       Professor Chaim Waxman, a prominent and high...
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Wednesday, August 28, 2019

If a person with measles walks into a room, the pathogens can linger there for two hours after the person has gone. In the New Square shul, this meant that as many as seven thousand people had shared airspace with the young man from Israel. It was fortunate that the room was so big and even, perhaps, that the women (and their small children) were in the balcony, away from the men and Patient Zero; pregnant women and small children are at the greatest risk....

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The Message of Measles As public-health officials confront the largest outbreak in the U.S. in decades, they’ve been fighting as muc...
Tuesday, August 27, 2019

“What if there is no ‘next level?’ What if it’s just an idea you made up in your head? What if you’re already there and not only are you not recognizing it, but by constantly pursuing something more, you’re preventing yourself from appreciating it and enjoying where you are now?”

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The Disease of More   Be careful with the drive to improve for the sake of improvement, the desire for more for no other reason tha...
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Monday, August 26, 2019

Starting the following year, students split off into studying one of the two languages intensively. There are also a few different religious studies tracks kids can choose — from world religions to Jewish studies to a more intensive, four-day-a-week traditional Jewish track run by Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Sarasota & Manatee Counties, that will have a handful of kids this year.

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 You Can't Make This Stuff up! Chabad Lubavitch of Sarasota & Manatee Counties   ...
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Friday, August 23, 2019

It's This Time Of Year Again --- Preparations For The Agudah Coverup Convention 2019 Are Underway - Mimicking Our Theme From 2010 --- Because We Never Change Our Mind No Matter What!

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Sunday, November 07, 2010 - The UOJ Classics "Don't Ask Don't Tell" - Theme of Agudah Convention 2010! ...
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Thursday, August 22, 2019

Who exactly is Wayne Allyn Root and why are he and Trump so fond of each other? Here are some answers.

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Who is Wayne Allyn Root, the evangelical Christian Trump quoted to validate his comments on Jews? ...
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Wednesday, August 21, 2019

The religious Jews in New York were super Jewish. They were intense about a dozen things I’d never heard of — which kinds of kosher foods were not kosher enough and the exact measurements of long skirts, for example. Many of them had never met a Jewish family unlike their own. They couldn’t imagine the encounters I had while walking on the street, and I could never understand why they were always running somewhere...

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Should we have laughed at this joke about New York Jews? Orthodox Jews enjoy a day of sun and sea at Brooklyn's Coney Isl...