“Self-hating Jews are the biggest challenge to the Chareidi world.” Steve Savitsky talks with Yitzhak Frankfurter, editor of Ami magazine, about Chassidic and Chareidi viewpoints on challenges facing their community.
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Inside the Mind and Heart of the Bullied
Bullying is the abuse that happens to our children. We need to make it taboo.
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OU/IPA Leading Effort to Secure Government Aid for Shuls Hit by Sandy
Steve Savitsky interviews the IPA’s Nathan Diament about the effort to get FEMA funding for synagogues that sustained damage in Sandy.
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The Cycle of “Shush”
When well-meaning congregants exacerbate the problems of shul decorum.
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Our Neglected Converts, Our Neglected Duty
“I feel barely welcome or a part of the Jewish people.”
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Answering Unanswerable Questions, Replacing Despair With Hope
The Sandy Hook shooting: what to say to children, how to respond in the longer range, how to place the event in the broader context of personal suffering, contemporary American society, and Jewish history.
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Newtown’s Youngest Victim Is Laid to Rest, as the Jewish Community Comes Together
“Most of all, I will miss your visions of your future.”
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Misconceptions About the Beth Din of America
Steve Savitsky interviews Rabbi Shlomo Weissman, Director of the Beth Din of America. Do they always try to achieve a compromise? Is it always a slow process?
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What’s the Single Most Burning Issue of the Day?
None of the other challenges we face as a community will need to be addressed if we stand by and do nothing as we slowly, steadily and silently cease to exist.
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My Post-Sandy Dinner With 4 Marines
“I’m going to take my boys and leave because if we stay any longer, I’ll start crying.”
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