HeyJaredRationalist Judaism
Exploring the legacy of the rationalist rabbinic tradition, and various other notes on Judaism, science and society, by Rabbi Dr. Natan Slifkin. The views are those of the author alone.
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Good Dogs and Great Rabbis (opens the original)
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I just saw two pictures of important rabbis getting together on Sukkot. Only one of them included a dog.Here’s the dogless picture. It’s the charedi Gedolim(TM) of Keren Olam HaTorah, whose mission is to ensure that their community has no obligations of any kind to the rest of the nation, or even to be economically self-sufficient, even while the rest of the nation is suffering so much because of the war.<a class="image-link image2
“Where is the Unity?” (opens the original)
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Dear Jonathan, In your article “Where is the Unity?” (https://mishpacha.com/where-is-the-unity/) you bemoan the lack of national unity in Israel. You appropriately acknowledge that the IDF manpower crisis means that charedi wholesale avoidance of IDF service is a serious problem, which understandably causes resentment among those who have to make vastly greater sacrifices and suffer enormously as a result. But you suggest that charedim could at least partially solve the criticism of their commun
Patriots vs. Traitors (opens the original)
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My head is spinning, trying to understand the standards and positions of the government and its most right-wing supporters regarding the definition of patriots who are our friends and traitors who are our enemy.For example, Yuval Abraham, the producer of the anti-Israel documentary Naza, is condemned for claiming that Israel was engaged in widespread killing of civilians in Gaza. The government, in yet another pointless gift to those seeking to politically and economically isolate Israel, declar
The Forbidden Word (opens the original)
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When the Charedi Girls Call (opens the original)
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