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Jonathan Mark on Reform Jews

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When Glenn Beck Compares Reform Judaism To Radical Islam, He’s Unfair To Islam

Submitted by Jonathan Mark on Wed, 02/23/2011 – 13:01

When Glenn Beck says that Reform Judaism is like radical Islam, insofar as both are more about politics than faith, he’s being unfair to radical [...]

Find Your Rabbi in the Yellow Pages

The great early sages had jobs, why don’t the haredim in Israel think they should as [...]

Nutty Rabbis Feel Obligated to Prohibit Non-Jews From Living in Israel

Dozens of Israel’s municipal chief rabbis signed on to the ruling, which comes just months after the chief rabbi of Safed initiated a call urging Jews to refrain from renting or selling apartments to non-Jews.

Signatories include the chief rabbis of Ramat Hasharon, Ashdod, Kiryat Gat, Rishon Letzion, Carmiel, Gadera, Afula, Nahariya, Herzliya, Nahariya and Pardes [...]

When Palestinian Groups Indiscriminately Boycott "Israeli" Products

Yes, really bright way to boycott the occupation: Sabra Dipping Company Opens the Doors to New Manufacturing Plant and New Opportunities in [...]

The TSA and Shmirat Negia (no touching)

haven’t heard anything about this, but I wonder what the TSA’s policy is for Shomer Negia people who cannot be touch, less sexually touched by people they aren’t married to or related to, and how that community is responding to the new TSA policies. For example, what if this girl had been Fruma Frumsky and was going through airport [...]

This Years Tisha b'Av Fast: The Rotem Conversion Bill

This Years Tisha b’Av Fast: The Rotem Conversion [...]

Golinkin: Fair Access to the Kotel

His solution is essentially thus: If the Orthodox get free access to the kotel at all hours, so should the non-Orthodox, at their own [...]

Halakhic Doormen Building

I’m sure this has been addressed by someone at some point, but if one lives in a doorman building, can one’s doorman be Jewish and on still work on Shabbat or Yom [...]

A Dangerous Man

Plane diverted when boy suspiciously puts on phylacteries / tefillin. As rabbijam quipped on the Shefa list: “From what I understand, the pilot diverted the plane to Philly instead of Kentucky out of concern that the boy wouldn’t find a minyan in Kentucky. [...]

Are Tzitzit Egalitarian?

Women of the Wall is not and has not been an egalitarian group in any way. Nofrat and Anat haven’t been arrested/questioned because of egalitarian services in the gender-separated area, but for practicing an authentic Jewish [...]