Never in the field of human barbery has so much been written by so many, about so few… hairs. One shave and we’re Shmoozing, of course but we’re not only Shmoozing, we’re Thinking too. But it’s not only the Forward that has gone stark raving beard bonkers, over at religiondispatches.org they’ve taken some time off…
Reggae star Matisyahu has shaved his long beard, posted photos of his startling new look on Twitter, and is now saying that he is disavowing the Hasidic life he has led for the past decade. Tuesday morning, with the photos, he tweeted a somewhat cryptic line that seemed to explain at least part of his…
Has the U.S. Army set a double standard by refusing to allow an Orthodox rabbi to serve as a chaplain because he won’t shave his beard? Menachem Stern’s lawyers think so. Attorneys Nathan and Alyza D. Lewin told the Washington Post that the Army “has granted a waiver to two Sikh captains and an enlisted…
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