58 days ago by magnivblog

Rabbi Shalom Yosef Elyashiv has advised many that wearing crocs, the only Yom Kippur/Tisha B Av alternative for leather shoes which are forbidden on both days, is too comfortable for the day of “afflicting our souls”. While he didn’t outright prohibit wearing them, but only “advised” against it. To ...

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83 days ago by stpie

Instead of putting on music this morning, I turned on the telly. Nothing on, except on the Christian channel, Omega. It’s called Oh My God by the humourists. So I left it on. And it got me in the worst mood ever. The pretentious bastard who does the 700 Club and CBN (?) news mimicks Bill Clinton and ...

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89 days ago by magnivblog

Names in my opinion are just that. They don’t always describe the person or thing fully and i think the same goes for the movements in Judaism. I was reading an article this morning about how Conservative Judaism should consider a name change. I think that may be worth while for many reasons: “Conse ...

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132 days ago

(IsraelNN.com) The religious-Zionist camp’s candidate for the important position of Jerusalem’s Chief Ashkenazic Rabbi will be chosen from a field of seven right after Rosh Chodesh Av, in the course of the “Nine Days” that end on Tisha B’Av. The candidate will be selected by a special committee that ...

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