Weekly Links

Rules: link
Friday

Once we were young (by Joseph Kaplan): link

Free online edition of the YIVO encyclopedia: link

Conservative movement struggles over intermarrieds in cemetery: link

An illuminating journey through seven centuries: link

Orthodox teacher marks 75 years in classroom: link

Shaaray Tefilla celebrates a century: link

Missionaries in Flatbush: link

SALT today: link

Thursday

• US’s ‘Great Recession’ is boon for aliya: link
• The oldest synagogue in Greece: link
• In the shadow of Nazi classic, director’s kin speak their minds: link
• Conversion bill still troubles U.S. Jewish leaders: link
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• SALT today: link

Wednesday

• Obama, Israel & American Jews: The Challenge—A Symposium: link
• Jamaican hip-hopper turned Orthodox Jew: A candid talk with Yoseph Robinson: link
• Israel's ultra-Orthodox turn to consumer clout: link
• Ask the Rabbi: On being fruitful (I'm hashkafically against contraception during early marriage): link
• Rav Belsky’s stance on the kashrus of worms in flesh of fish: link
• Glatt kosher, pasture-raised meat: link
• SALT today: link

Tuesday

• The value of the humanities: David Brooks, Stanley Fish
• Chief Rabbi Metzger: 'No mourning Gaza exit': link
• State to blame for lack of haredim in workforce: link
• Quoting biblical verses, man wins a million shekels: link
• Rabbis without borders: link
• R. Yisroel Belsky's teshuvah about worms in fish (and see this post: link): link
• SALT today: link

Monday

• Rubashkin found not guilty in child labor law case: link
• New issue of Torah U-Mada Journal: link
• Hooked on gadgets, and paying a mental price: link
• Boxer with OU tattoo defeats rabbinical student: link
• At Maimonides 38% of women giving birth are obese: link
• Genetics & the Jews: link
• Chosen, but not genius (reminiscent of this post, without the politics: link): link
• SALT today: link