From WorldNetDaily, home of all that’s wacky in Christian Dominionism, comes Vox Day, who after an accident with a government haircut became a libertarian. Vox Day proclaims that Ann Coulter is right. What else did you think he was gonna say?
Ann Coulter, being a Christian, understandably knows her Christian theology rather better than her interlocutor [...]
October 15, 2007
Categories: politics . . Author: samuraimohel . Comments: 1 Comment
Last night at the Township Committee meeting there was a prayer service for the recovery of Mordechai Moskowitz and the arrest of the man who beat him nearly to death with a baseball bat
“We would’ve hoped that meetings like this would’ve made attacks like these impossible, but that proved not the case,” Rabbi Lee [...]
October 14, 2007
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I don’t know whether to laugh or yawn at this point. Now Chumi Friedman has apparently unilaterally edited Elliot Resnick’s post in order to get across “The point he wanted to make” even as she deleted what he wrote in his own defense, calling it an administrative decision. I think this officially qualifies as a [...]
October 10, 2007
Categories: jblogsphere . . Author: samuraimohel . Comments: 1 Comment
“Being a Jew means that we don’t get to pick and choose which of these laws we follow. It means that we don’t get to set ethical standards – they are set for us.” Chumi Friedman on the Jewish Press blog writes in regard to the fallout from Elliot Resnick’s Chassidish Bashing blog post.
For [...]
October 10, 2007
Categories: stupidity . . Author: samuraimohel . Comments: 2 Comments
Now reg readers if I’ve got any know I do my share of windmill tilting here taking on Haredi and Chassidish nonsense. I don’t spare no sacred cows because I only care about the truth. But what I can’t stand is this kind of stupid elitist bashing you see in MO circles.
Here’s the difference
Real criticism: [...]
October 10, 2007
Categories: stupidity, the frum life . . Author: samuraimohel . Comments: 2 Comments
For quite a while now, the women’s prayer group debate has gone on and on, mainly with Rabbis writing psaks that have no actual halacha whatsoever to back them up really but like Rav Kook, are primarily concerned that women’s prayer groups are something foreign and that they uproot tradition and open the door to [...]
October 8, 2007
Categories: stupidity, women . . Author: samuraimohel . Comments: 2 Comments