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Posted by: Gil Student in News Aug 4, 15 1 Comment

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▪ Exactly: The us-them politics of baby-burning and teen-stabbing
▪ R Shafran: Don’t Blame All Ultra-Orthodox for Actions of One Stabber
▪ What’s So Paradoxical About the Return of Religion?
▪ What West Bank Rabbi Menachem Froman Can Teach American Jews About Zionism
▪ Online Synagogue Archives: The Future of American Judaism’s Past
▪ Israeli-British project makes Hebrew texts available online
▪ For first time in 100 years, outsider tapped to lead Looksteins’ N.Y. shul

About Gil Student

Rabbi Gil Student is the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of TorahMusings.com, a leading website on Orthodox Jewish scholarly subjects, and the Book Editor of the Orthodox Union’s Jewish Action magazine. He writes a popular column on issues of Jewish law and thought featured in newspapers and magazines, including The Jewish Link, The Jewish Echo and The Vues. In the past, he has served as the President of the small Jewish publisher Yashar Books and as the Managing Editor of OU Press. Rabbi Student serves on the Executive Committee of the Rabbinical Council of America and as Director of the Halacha Commission of the Rabbinical Alliance of America. He also serves on the Editorial Boards of Jewish Action magazine, the Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society and the Achieve Journal of Behavioral Health, Religion & Community, as well as the Board of OU Press. He has published five English books, the most recent titled Search Engine volume 2: Finding Meaning in Jewish Texts -- Jewish Leadership, and served as the American editor for Morasha Kehillat Yaakov: Essays in Honour of Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks.

One comment

  1. micha
    Aug 4, 15 at 4:58 pm

    I think RNS puts it quite well in his Right Points, Wrong People. All the right things are being said — but by the DL trying to give mussar to chareidim, “don’t blame a whole community” by chariedim who then sound like they’re all about deflecting blame rather than focusing on the tragedy, etc…

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