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• Jon Gosselin Goes Jewish With Rabbi Shmuley

  
  Popsquire — Authority: 526
  For today’s collision between pop culture and Jewish law, Jon Gosselin held a public forum at New York’s West Side Jewish Center over the weekend.With his new buddy, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Jon discussed his divorce from Kate Gosselin as well as his relationship with Hailey Glassman.  He also asked for ...
  1 week ago

• Female Orthodox scholars helping women talk about sex

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 139
  JTA - Global News Service of the Jewish People By Dina Kraft · October 29, 2009 JERUSALEM (JTA) — With Shabbat fast approaching, the sun was beginning to melt in the Jerusalem sky when the phone rang in Noa Lau’s kitchen. On the line was a woman who spoke in a voice still raw from the grief ...
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• Not just about women

  
  Isramom — Authority: 410
  Mimi  ( probably with some help from Alice )    has given us an amazing Kosher Cooking Carnival post. Check it out! Now its official! Its not  legal to force women to sit in the back of the bus! Now it remains to be seen if this brings change.  ...
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• The Coen Brothers: Self-Hating Jews?

  
  Tikkun Olam — Authority: 459
  I received a comment to my last post which incensed me, and after writing a long rebuttal comment I decided just to run it as a post. Here it is (read that comment first). You say I think that Jews are not capable of Run of the mill buffoonery? Lust? Depression? Drug use? A penchant for petty thievery? ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rabbi Benny Lau and the Dor Revi’i

  
  Menachem Mendel — Authority: 125
  Rabbi Benny Lau reacts to this question, whether a man is permitted to hit his wife, by quoting the Dor Revi’i on morality. (Hebrew) Lau’s conclusion is while in the past this may have been a legitimate question and some Jewish authorities may have even answered in the affirmative, see here , today just ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Magenta Elephant in the Room: When Interfaith People Visit Israel

  
  Most Recent Posts — Authority: 607
  By Robin Margolis I sometimes think if I receive one more email inviting me to send half-Jewish people to Israel on trips or special tours for interfaith families, Im going to have a neural meltdown. Its not the kindly trip invitations that get to me, though: its the viewpoint. Heres their collective message: Robin, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Jews and Guns

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 815
  An Ethiopian Jewish woman soldier takes aim. Both men and women serve in the Israeli Defense Forces. Thus, there is a weapon in almost every Israeli home. Before our son Ariel Chaim ZT”L passed away, age twenty-two, in 2003, we spent a good deal of time discussing the Second Amendment, the Right to Keep and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Halakhah in the Making and Book Sales

  
  Menachem Mendel — Authority: 125
  Aharon Shemesh has a new book coming out soon, Halakhah in the Making: The Development of Jewish Law from Qumran to the Rabbis . Halakhah in the Making offers the first comprehensive study of the legal material found in the Dead Sea Scrolls and its significance in the greater history of Jewish religious law ...
  3 weeks ago

• Elyashiv Aside, Here’s the Good News

  
  OneJerusalem.com Israel News Blog Feed — Authority: 126
  Nishmat is a center for women’s learning and halachic instruction. Not that Torah learning institutions for women are all that rare, but this one sponsors a program that issues certification for women who have completed a course in Jewish law in the area of family purity, or Taharat HaMishpaha. This area regulates ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ethics of Justice

  
  Rabbi Jason's Blog (Rabbi Jason Miller) — Authority: 103
  Listening to the Torah reading on Shemini Atzeret this past Shabbat morning, my attention was focused on the hungry. One might think that it would have been on Yom Kippur that my attention was on the hungry as I spent the day fasting. However, I couldnt help but think of those human beings without enough sustenance ...
  4 weeks ago

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