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The Lessons of Outremont 27 Aug 2013 | 07:24 pm
I hope every Mishpacha reader read and absorbed last week’s cover story about the public relations efforts of chassidic residents of Montreal’s Outremont district, which had implications for Torah Jew...
Waters of Unlife 26 Aug 2013 | 08:44 pm
A lengthy piece at the online magazine Tablet describes “new Jewish rituals” that “offer comfort to women who have had abortions.” It begins with the story of a woman who, as a young graduate student,...
Motivators 23 Aug 2013 | 12:26 am
The recent “news” story about a bar mitzvah boy in Dallas who celebrated the milestone of obligation to observe the Torah’s laws by entertaining family and guests by dancing on a stage with a bevy of ...
Angels At The Hollywood Bowl 22 Aug 2013 | 12:25 pm
Stay for the concert; get pshat in a gemara. That’s not what I expected from the Itzhak Perlman / Yitzchok Meir Helfgot performance Tuesday evening at the Hollywood Bowl, but it was the way it turned ...
Black Peril, White Knights 19 Aug 2013 | 09:20 pm
A lengthy piece in the New Republic asserts – or, more accurately, hopes – that “an unlikely alliance between Orthodox and progressive women will save Israel from fundamentalism.” The latter word, of ...
A False Choice 13 Aug 2013 | 10:51 pm
A few months ago, Rabbi Shneur Aisenstark, one of the most veteran and respected educators in North America (as well as someone from whom I have gained much), published a Guestlines piece in Mishpacha...
Little Is Much 11 Aug 2013 | 07:45 pm
I must confess that I’m a hardened skeptic when it comes to most “inspirational” stories. Unless something has been attested to by unimpeachable witnesses or otherwise documented (and that doesn’t mea...
Living With Questions 11 Aug 2013 | 11:03 am
Voltaire said, “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.” Jews could easily offer a third option: judge the faith of a people by their ability to live with unanswered questions. The Z...
Two NYT Pieces Say It All 8 Aug 2013 | 08:32 pm
Two recent articles in the New York Times conveyed as informative a picture of Palestinians and Israel as might be imagined. One, on August 4, profiled the “culture of conflict” nurtured by West Bank ...
If Trayvon Were Tuvia: The Orthodox (Non)response to the Zimmerman Verdict 8 Aug 2013 | 08:49 am
by Chaim Saiman A Jewish boy¬— lets call him Tuvia Mendel— is walking home one night. Maybe he is a bit drunk, maybe not. Tuvia attracts the attention of a non-Jewish neighborhood watchman who descri...
