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News Top Modern Orthodox Rabbi Michael Broyde Admits Fake Name Scheme
Leading Modern Orthodox legal expert Rabbi Michael Broyde has apologized for infiltrating a rival Modern Orthodox rabbinic organization under a fake name, just an hour after The Jewish Channel posted an exposé revealing Broyde’s extensive use of the false identity. Broyde is a judge on the Beth Din of America, the leading Modern Orthodox rabbinical…
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Life Timing Our Kids
In case you haven’t read my last blog: I’m not pregnant. Nor do we intend me to be anytime soon. But of course, as everyone likes to remind me, “Man plans and God laughs.” Or “You might change your mind and want kids sooner.” Or “birth control is only 99% effective, you know.” (We know.)…
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Life No, I’m Not Pregnant Yet
I’m not entirely surprised that I’ve been getting pregnancy jokes — and less jokey queries — ever since it’s been halachically possible for me to be pregnant. After all, I used to be one of those girls who would stare down a newly married woman’s belly, itching with curiosity to know when it would swell….
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Opinion Behind Coalition Standoff: Likud MKs Can’t Face Loss
With Prime Minister Netanyahu just days away from his final deadline to install a new government or lose the option, observers on all sides have their own ways of explaining what’s holding things up. Most of them are correct, but there’s a larger truth that overshadow them all: The Likud hasn’t internalized the fact that…
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Breaking News 75,000 Facebook Users Ask Ban of ‘F— Israel’ Page
A Facebook petition to remove an anti-Israel page that uses an expletive in its name has 75,000 likes, the removal campaign’s creator says. Michael Mendelson of Miami told JTA by telephone that the removal petition against the “Fuck Israel” page has been on Facebook for less than a week; the number of likes is as…
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Life Leave ‘Voice’ Contestant Alone
By now, readers of The Sisterhood are aware that 17-year-old Israeli singer Ophir Ben-Shetreet was suspended from her religious girls’ high school for appearing on Israel’s “The Voice,” a televised talent competition. The suspension was a punishment for defying the halakhic injunction of “kol (b’)isha,” which prohibits a woman’s singing voice from being heard by…
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Life Keep Singing, Girlfriend, But Obey the Rules
I read Renee Ghert-Zand’s post on the Sisterhood earlier this week, and then made the mistake of reading the comments under the article (51 of them as of this afternoon). I was disturbed for many reasons, but not, like everyone else, because a high school girl was suspended for singing in public For starters, let’s…
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News Newlywed Blogging, Survey of New York Jews
In this week’s Reporters Roundtable podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Forward blogger Simi Lichtman to discuss her new blog, where she is documenting her first year of marriage. Then, Josh looks at the numbers from the newest UJA survey of New York’s Jewish communities and reveals which neighborhoods are growing, which are shrinking…
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