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Interview: Gerald Schroeder
Dr. Gerald Schroeder is an MIT trained physicist and an Orthodox Jew. His previous books, including Genesis and the Big ...
More Lubavitch Fetishism
Remember way back when I wrote about how the New York Times constantly glamorized/fetishized/stared at the world of Hasidic Brooklyn? ...
Pride Month is Coming: Tremble and Make a Jihad
Pride Month (June) is almost upon us and preparation for big events are already underway within the Jewish community. Get ...
Hasids and the Amish: Match Made in Heaven
Somehow I missed this a few weeks ago when it was fresh news, but apparently there was a group of ...
Isolation vs. Assimilation When It Comes to Religious Marketing
There’s a fascinating post over at Church Marketing Sucks about why it’s offensive and unethical for religious institutions to rip ...
Religious People are Nicer
A study by Harvard professor Robert Putnam has found that religious people are better citizens, better neighbors and generally just ...
Say Kaddish For Conservative and Reform Judaism?
I saw this article before I left for work this morning, and the first two paragraphs had me spitting nails, ...
Ethical Kashrut: Going Live in 5
It’s been exactly one year since the Agriprocessors/Rubashkin’s scandal broke out, and today, the Orthodox Social Justice organization Uri L’Tzedek ...
Poll: Same Sex Marriage
This week, two Orthodox organizations, The Orthodox Union and Agudath Israel, came out in a joint statement against a New ...
Wise Fridays: People Are Stingy
People are stingy with money, but we’re also stingy with kavod, with honor. We’re even stingy with ourselves. We’re supposed ...