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No, Chanukah Does Not Celebrate Pluralism!
Of all Jewish holidays, Chanukah is the one that is most subject to distortion.
My Draft for Trump’s Speech Pardoning All But One of Mueller’s Victims
I have begun drafting my proposed speech for President Trump to use on the occasion of his pardoning all convicted and imprisoned Mueller victims except Michael “Cash Cab” Cohen.
Hush Money and Impeachment
Going after Trump like there’s no tomorrow — which there is.
A Just-So Story: How This Brooklyn Rabbi Got Into Country Music
After some other songs we never before had heard — I truly knew nothing of country music at that point — the station played another Garth standard: “Unanswered Prayers.” By now Garth had so many tears welling in my eyes that I could not drive for a moment, had to pull off to the side of the road.
Why Climate Change and Diversity Are So Urgent
On the secret probe at the university where you say it best when you say nothing at all.
America’s Most Vile Bigot
Linda Sarsour hates White women. She hates Arab women who oppose Islamism. She hates women on the left who do not support selectively boycotting Israel alone among all countries on earth. Don’t even get started with how she feels about men. But she loves Saudi Arabia and sharia law.
Washington Jewish Week: Orthodox groups back Israel critic on headwear
“While we may deplore many things that Ilhan Omar has said, this is not one of them,” said Rabbi Yaakov Menken, the managing director of the conservative Coalition for Jewish Values. “This is a protection of religious liberty.”
Finding Words to Express a Lack of Feelings on the Passing of President George H.W. Bush
I ask myself why I am not feeling grief, pain, or even emotion at the passing of President George H.W. Bush. I know the answer, but it is hard for me to put my feelings into words I want to publish.
Praise to the Chief Rabbinate for non-recognition of sham ‘Conversion’
There is no greater cruelty to non-Jews who seek to become Jewish than for renegade rabbis to tell them that they now suddenly are “converted” to Judaism — but without advising them that the “conversions” will not be recognized by mainstream Jewry.
Rabbis Commend Israel’s Chief Rabbinate for Conversion Court List
Those who demand that the Rabbanut blindly accept conversion courts without investigation demonstrate a stunning lack of awareness of both the complex and delicate nature of the conversion process, and the sad prevalence of rabbis performing conversions whose adherence to halachic standards is highly questionable.