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17 April 2008
Davening Man Removed from Plane
On Wednesday night, an Orthodox man boarded a United Airlines flight from JFK to San Francisco. Before the flight took off, he went to the back of plane to daven, probably Mincha (Maariv could have waited). The crew asked him to sit for takeoff, but since he was in the middle of the [...]
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9 April 2008
The Geek Guide to Kosher Machines
I just stumbled on a Wired article from November of 2004 which profiles Jonah Ottensoser, an engineer for the Star-K. “A retired helicopter engineer who is himself Orthodox, Ottensoser teaches Sabbath law to technical teams at companies like General Electric, Electrolux, and Viking. His job: to guide them in building electronic brains and mechanical guts [...]
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5 April 2008
The Incredible Story of “Natan Levy”/AKA Ted Riley Floyd
In another proof that real life outdoes film in the sensationalism department, the ultra-orthodox community of Lakewood, NJ was shocked to learn that a member of their community had been exposed as a non-Jewish identity thief from Kansas. The young man, whom they had come to know as “Natan Levy,” was actually Ted Riley Floyd [...]
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25 March 2008
Brain Death in Jewish Law: Setting the Record Straight
In the March 25, 2008 article “MK: Hundreds of organ transplants may lose funding,” the Jerusalem Post got their research on Brain Death in Halacha wrong. They misquoted the opinion of Rav Moshe Feinstein. Here’s what they said:
… (Rav) Elyashiv has also ruled in the past that brain death does not constitute clinical [...]
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20 March 2008
Rabbis’ New Role: Wedding Crashers
While those in the Internet reading community may not be aware, Brooklyn rabbis have recently banned marriage. I went undercover to find the story, and I now present my first piece of investigative journalism.
Rabbis Ban Marriage: Cite Promiscuity as Reason
Yet Another Jewneric Exclusive by staff writer, David Gertler
A group of 178 of Ultra-Orthodox rabbis [...]
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4 March 2008
The Israeli “Limpieza de Sangre,” or, Are You Jewish Enough to Read This?
What is a Jew? And why does it matter?
The number one article emailed over the last day from the NY Times is a piece from the magazine entitled “How Do You Prove You’re a Jew?” written by Gershom Gorenberg.
Intrigued by the title, I read on. If you have not yet read this article, I highly [...]
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18 February 2008
The 71 Sided Die
One idea that is thrown around in Jewish thought is that there are seventy different approaches to learning. “Shivim Panim Latorah” (Bemidbar Rabba 13:15). The phrase in its entirety is, “There are 70 faces to Torah; turn it over and turn it over for everything is found in it.”
This claim [...]
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9 February 2008
Wig Store Banned: This is the stuff Horror movies are made from…
I was doing some “Jewish website web-surfing” and came across an article on Yeshiva World about a sheitle (wig) store being banned for putting up pictures of women. Lets clarify: Pictures of women from the neck up, wearing sheitles. This happened in Brooklyn across from the Yeshivas Chaim Berlin.I can’t believe our world has come [...]
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7 February 2008
The Wisdom of the Ancient World Gets Some Good Press!
An article in Slate Magazine from April 10, 1998, by Steven E. Landsburg, discusses the way in which modern economic theory backs up the rabbis of the Babylonian Talmud. How I stumbled across this article about a week ago I really don’t remember, but I’ve been thinking about it constantly ever since.
I just think [...]