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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 [...]

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 [...]

Hilkhot Facebook

Kind of amusing:

Hilkhot Facebook

הלכות פייסבוק

Lede:

“מצוות הפעייסבוק תמידית היא ומחויב אדם להגות בה יומם ולילה. מכורים ואנשי מעשה מקפידין שלא לילך ד’ אמות בלא פעייסבוק, ומקיימין מצוות ‘ובלכתך בדרך’ בלעפטופ, בנעטבוק ובסלולער”. גיל סלוביק עם קובץ הלכות לגולש הישראלי

My translation:

The mitzvah of Facebook is constant and one is obligated to meditate on it day and night. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

What the Women of the Wall Want

Simply put, our goal is to obtain the freedom to pray and to do everything that is halachically permitted for women on the women’s side of the mechitza. This includes reciting prayers together that do not require a minyan, and, yes, most of all, it includes reading from the Torah. (Though it has been many [...]

Twilight: Kosher Vampires?

Jewish Screenwriter Pens ‘Kosher’ Vampires for ‘Twilight’

Vampires aren’t very Jewish,” Rosenberg says. “The most basic thing about them is that they are born out of Christian mythology.” Nevertheless, she is quick to point out that Meyer, a devout Mormon, has created her own vampire mythology, devoid of religious connotation, absent the Christian symbolism of crosses [...]