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Ross Singer

Ross Singer served as a rabbi in the US and Canada before making aliya with his family in 2010… [More]

April 21, 2013
5:13 pm

The significance of Rav Stav’s candidacy

Rabbi David Stav has focused his campaign to be Chief Rabbi on a biting critique of the current state of the Rabbinate. He has noted the troubling numbers of......

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January 26, 2013
6:05 pm

Why Yair Lapid is good news for Torah study

With Yesh Atid’s tremendous showing in the recent elections, the subject of integration of the Haredi community into larger Israeli society will surely dominate the upcoming coalition deliberations. Beyond the......

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October 11, 2012
12:01 am

For Ashkenazi Orthodoxy, a new heart in the east?

My wife loves to tell the story about how I led the Birkat Hamazon (grace after meals) in our Yemenite landlord’s home. When they tried to give me the......

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August 26, 2012
8:40 am

Rabbinate tarnishes Torah’s reputation, in life and death

I was always anxious when I received that call – the call from the funeral home indicating that a loosely affiliated family or completely unaffiliated family had lost a......

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