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Izgad: Rabbi Dovid Schwartz's Letter to the Yated
Rabbi Avrohom Birnbaum's article on the "Der Heim" Myth got a letter by Rabbi Dovid Schwartz of the Jewish Heritage Center published in the Yated. I would like to thank Bray for sending me a copy as it only appeared in the print edition, which I do not ha...
Dateline: 2010-02-08 8:02pm -08:00T (68 words)
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Izgad: Rabbi Dovid Schwartz Responds
I emailed Rabbi Dovid Schwartz some questions regarding his letter to the Yated. Rabbi Schwartz was kind enough to respond. Haredim are often in the habit of using the failures of Spanish Jewry in 1391 and 1492 to discredit Maimonidean rationalism. Why is...
Dateline: 2010-02-08 8:02pm -08:00T (65 words)
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Izgad: Would Haredim Make Good Terrorists? Some Thoughts on Radical Religious and Violent (Part II)
 (Part I)It occurred to me that this argument, that successful terrorist organizations require agents with high defection constants and this is best accomplished by recruiting candidates with long histories of service to the group's social welfare networ...
Dateline: 2010-02-07 12:48pm -08:00T (57 words)
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Izgad: A Religious Defense of a Secular State Not Enforcing Biblical Punishment: My Response to Dr. Lively II
We have a second exchange of more series emails between Dr. Scott Lively and me. Dr. Lively continues his challenge to my commitment to biblical law in that I seem to be willing to let certain verses in Leviticus slide when they do not suit my liberal bel...
Dateline: 2010-02-07 6:32am -08:00T (73 words)
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Izgad: Would Haredim Make Good Terrorists? Some Thoughts on Radical Religious and Violent (Part I)
A few months ago a friend of mine, Reuben Seligman, recommended that I read Radical Religious and Violent: The New Economics of Terrorism by Eli Berman. Many people recommend books to me, I welcome it and I occasionally even get around to reading them, pa...
Dateline: 2010-02-06 1:02am -08:00T (73 words)
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Izgad: A Classical Liberal Unsheathes His Sword: My Response to Dr. Lively
Dr. Scott Lively, the subject of two earlier posts, was gracious enough to write in a more detailed defense of himself, which I include here along with my response. Mr. Chinn,
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Dateline: 2010-02-04 3:18pm -08:00T (66 words)
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Izgad: Modern Orthodox Dating in Washington Heights
In continuation of my last post, Corinne Ramey has an article, "In Search of a Modest Proposal," about Modern Orthodox dating. The article focuses on the dating scene in Washington Heights and particularly the Mount Sinai synagogue. I lived in Washington ...
Dateline: 2010-02-03 6:17pm -08:00T (63 words)
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Izgad: Are Haredi Girls More Open Minded When it Comes to Intellectuals?
Michael Makovi has a post on his experiences with dating girls to the right and more modern girls. As someone whose religious views are still fairly liberal in many respects, one would expect that he would have an easier time dating more modern girls. Suc...
Dateline: 2010-02-02 5:33pm -08:00T (67 words)
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Izgad: Scott Lively Responds
Scott Lively responded to my last post. Apparently he did not appreciate the fact that I posted his email to me. Dear Mr. Chinn,I offered privately what I thought would be a helpful research tip regarding a source you were not likely to have discovered, ...
Dateline: 2010-02-01 8:17pm -08:00T (64 words)
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Izgad: The Yated Gets Its Jewish History Right (For Once)
The Yated Ne'eman, run in the States by Pinchos Lipshutz (who, I am informed, I may actually be related to), is usually one of the best representatives of what is wrong with the Haredi world. I do not deem fit to call it a newspaper. It is a propaganda re...
Dateline: 2010-02-01 7:47am -08:00T (71 words)
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Izgad: Email From Scott Lively: the Protocols are a George Bernard Shaw Conspiracy
Last night I received an email response to my post on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion: At the Library of Congress is an obscure book by Samuel Igra which makes the case that "The Protocols...Zion" was actually written by George Bernard Shaw. I don't...
Dateline: 2010-02-01 7:47am -08:00T (73 words)
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Izgad: Spoof Ads for Kupat Ha’ir
As readers of this blog know, I have a particular interest in the Haredi charity organization Kupat Ha'ir. It makes outlandish and theologically dubious claims about rabbis having supernatural power to aid people who give to their charity. It also publish...
Dateline: 2010-01-29 10:02am -08:00T (66 words)
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Izgad: The Ethical Case Against Sex Outside of Marriage (Part II)
(Part I)Where does this leave sex? We must accept an almost Pauline position of seeing all sex as morally problematic. Sex is in a category in of its own because it requires one to physically take hold of someone and use them for your own benefit, violati...
Dateline: 2010-01-28 7:48am -08:00T (66 words)
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Izgad: I Score a Footnote
Dr. Adam S. Ferziger is one of the leading minds in understanding Orthodox Jewry, both in the historical nineteenth century setting and in the modern context. He is the author of Exclusion and Hierarchy: Orthodoxy, Nonobservance, and the Emergence of Mode...
Dateline: 2010-01-27 8:17am -08:00T (62 words)
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Izgad: The Ethical Case Against Sex Outside of Marriage (Part I)
Ever since the sixties, those of us who profess an opposition to sexual activity outside of marriage have been on the defensive. Sex outside of marriage has always been common, but now those of us who actually live up to this standard seem to now be in a ...
Dateline: 2010-01-27 8:17am -08:00T (70 words)
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