Friday, April 12, 2024

No moral option' to continue blanket IDF exemption for "Bench Kvetchers", haredi minister says

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  1947 - AGUDATH ISRAEL KOL KOREH - PUBLIC NOTICE Arbe...
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Thursday, April 11, 2024

How does one lose a war? This is how!

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  How to lose a war   A nation can lose when it halts the battle when it has momentum and then informs its enemy where it is next attackin...
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Wednesday, April 10, 2024

The Science of a Solar Eclipse -- Forget the Superstitious Foolishness....

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    The (Second) Great American Eclipse   The rabbis wrestled with the celestial event, but there is still an appropriate religious way to m...
Tuesday, April 09, 2024

The Lies And Hyperbole Of The Ultra-Orthodox Rabbis From The USA To Israel --- The rabbis’ letter stated that pressures to increase Haredi participation are part of a “malicious plan” to “gather under their control” the Haredi public — the text does not explain whose control — and “reduce the number of those who observe” the commandments of the Torah.

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  40% of officers training graduates defined themselves as religiously observant so daily joint prayers are held in nearly every medium ...
Monday, April 08, 2024

Gazans just engaged in the most brutal deliberate attacks on Israeli civilians, and Hamas, the instigator of those attacks, is widely supported by the civilians there. Hamas has indicated great joy at Biden’s remarks, continues to state it will not relent on attacking Israel, and, in fact, after Biden’s remarks, resumed missile attacks on Israel from Gaza.

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  Moral Midgets Cook Up a War Crime ...
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Sunday, April 07, 2024

More than 50 former students of the Yeshiva University High School for Boys allege they were sexually abused by the former principal, Rabbi George Finkelstein, and other staff at the prestigious high school from 1971 through 1992.

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Judge rules sex abuse lawsuits against Yeshiva University can proceed    New York Supreme Court Judge Alexander M. Tisch rejected Yeshiva ...
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Friday, April 05, 2024

JUST IMAGINE --- if the Torah contained multiple passages promising Heaven to any rabbi who raped a child. And then imagine that in the aftermath of an endless series of child rapes within the synagogue & yeshiva, more or less every politician, and Jewish & secular academic denied that they had anything whatsoever to do with the “true” teachings of Judaism. That is the uncanny situation we find ourselves in with respect to Islam.

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  The Bright Line between Good and Evil Sam Harris April/May 2024 This article was adapted from a transcript of the November...
Thursday, April 04, 2024

Speak softly and carry a big nuclear arsenal: Israel must enhance military self-reliance - In an era marked by shifting global alliances and uncertainties, expanding and augmenting Israel’s nuclear arsenal is crucial for safeguarding its future.

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  " Deterrence theory refers to the scholarship and practice of how threats or limited force by one party can convince another party ...
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Wednesday, April 03, 2024

Using tired anti-Zionist mantras to prop up an indefensible objection to military service may make Bench Kvetchers feel good, but it is nothing more than a hollow farce exploited to shore up an ideology that makes absolutely no sense.

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  From one Haredi man to another    Like it or not, Haredim who live in Israel are as Zionist as any secular Tel Aviv Jew -- they are in...
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