Weekly Links

Rules: link

Thursday

Drug bust at Israel airport, Hasidic Jews arrested (time for another Tehillim gathering?): link

The cost of being Jewish: link

Rabbinic group’s resolution expands women’s role: link

Rabbis: 'Don't rent to foreign workers': link

Times Square rabbi seeks America's runaway kids: link

Union for Traditional Judaism in financial trouble: link

SALT Thursday: link

Wednesday

• Halachically Speaking on worm-infested fish (an essay of mine is quoted in footnotes 46 and 52): link (PDF)
• Jewish (including Orthodox) LGBT leaders meet: link
• Disaffected synagogue leaders push for change in Young Israel: link
• 'America Is Better Served By A Religiously Vibrant Christianity' An Interview with Rabbi Daniel Lapin: link
• Satmar protests in front of White House over Israeli digging of graves: link
• New Young Israel advocacy: link
• Orthodox Rabbinical Group Outlines Women’s Roles as “Clergy” and More: link
• R. Jeffrey Saks' review in Tradition of biography of R. Ovadiah Yosef: link (PDF)
• Jewish organizations protest UC president's handling of reports of anti-Semitism: link
• A hard hitting examination of Jews and baseball: link
• Tradition and Its Discontents (new book by Shaul Stampfer): link
• SALT Wednesday: link

Tuesday

• The Mossad: link
• R. Malkiel Kotler denounces Hamodia eulogy of Dr. Bernard Lander (beginning of eulogy here: link): link
• Agreement reached in Chinuch Atzmai leadership battle: link
• More secular Israelis take up Torah, Jewish studies: link
• SALT Tuesday: link

Monday

• Passion Play called more balanced: link
• Red, White and Kosher: link
• New conversion institute aims to spark halachic debate: link
• R. Shlomo Aviner on Facebook's problems: link
• The Atheist vs. the Rabbi: link
• SALT Monday: link