Friday, December 25, 2009

Weekly Links

Rules: link (Note that this post will move every day until the end of the week)

Friday

  • SALT today: link
  • Jerusalem groups to protest 'mehadrin' bus lines: link
  • Ashkenazi girls skip school to protest anti-segregation court ruling: link

Previous days' linksThursday
  • SALT today: link
  • What Would Moshe Rabbeinu Have Done About Abusers?: link
  • Article in the Forward about the EJF scandal that quotes this post on this blog (link) and calls me Modern Orthodox (I'm OK with that): link
  • Police Attacked after Tending to Woman Assaulted by "Modesty Squad": link
  • YU holds discussion on Jews with homosexual inclinations: link
  • R. Steven Pruzansky offers valuable thoughts on Tropper and the Gedolim: link
  • Dei'ah VeDibur kvetches a loophole in the ban on Charedi websites: link
  • Geirus Re-Examined - Great analysis by R. Yair Hoffman: link
Wednesday
  • SALT today: link
  • Jewish customs on Xmas eve: link
  • A new stage of "Torah and science", says R. Shabtai Rappoport (R. Moshe Feinstein's grandson-in-law): link
  • R. Yona Metzger is "hurt" by Pope's decision: link
  • R. Eliezer Melamed on following military orders: link
  • Vatican defends decision on Pius XII: link
Tuesday
  • SALT today: link
  • Possible split among Hesder roshei yeshiva: link
  • Man-made tools found in Israel dating back 750,000 years: link
  • WJC criticizes pope's decision to beatify Pius XII: link
  • Spinka Rebbe sentenced to 2 years in prison: link
  • RCA statement on EJF scandal: link
  • Mishpacha article about R. Hershel Schachter and Rav Soloveitchik (I choose not to criticize it because despite its flaws it is a positive development): link
Monday
  • SALT today: link
  • Organ donation from the living: link
  • R. Reuven Bulka retires from performing conversions: link
  • R. Chaim Blum to serve as interim director of EJF: link
  • Hollywood's fascination with Pantheism: link
  • Fund gives millions of dollars to keep Russian-speaking Jews Jewish: link
  • How to encourage American Aliyah: link


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