A different kind of birthday
I know when my birthday is. I know the date, the year, and the time of day – I even know...
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A different kind of birthday
A different kind of birthday
For about a year, I have been the subject of a negative “advertising” campaign...
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Understanding Chabad and Messianism
As an active writer and blogger, I have often found myself in discussions about Chabad wit...
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Rambam – Three (and a bit) Years Later
It all started at a very merry Simchat Torah in 2008. Each year, a small group of fr...
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How Frum is Frum enough?
Many posts and comments on these pages have had a go at some of the Orthodox Jewish instit...
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Chanukah on the other side of the world
About a year ago, I wrote an article in an online magazine considering the differences bet...
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Church & State
On these pages, Rachel Sacks-Davis accused the Orthodox Rabbinate of acting more like...
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How do we solve a problem like Beit Shemesh?
The term ‘sectarian violence’ has been used extensively to describe the conflicts that...
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I’m Jewish; this is what we do
I’ve returned from an inspiring AJF lunch lecture in the succah with Helen Lieberman...
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Footy Crunch Time, Shul Crunch Time
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine posted on Facebook: “The sounds of the Shofar can only...
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Gossip Danger
“I won’t let my child ever walk home alone again from school”, I heard a mother say,...
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The Stigma
There has been lots of talk recently in the local blogosphere (here, here, and here) as we...
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