NY Times LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A mother needs to get her son out the door. Thick white socks cover his contorted feet, a coat drapes his twisted shoulders, a water bottle with a straw nestles in the concave of his chest, and black straps on his wheelchair secure his wrists. He is 33 years old, and she has to get him to an appointment.“I always forget something,” the mother, Mimi Kramer, says, looking about her small, immaculate house. “Oh. A change of pants, just in case.”Her son, Trey, has intellectual disability, autism and cerebral...
Wednesday, 31 December 2014
Monday, 29 December 2014
Wall Street Journal In 1966 Time magazine ran a cover story asking: Is God Dead? Many have accepted the cultural narrative that he’s obsolete—that as science progresses, there is less need for a “God” to explain the universe. Yet it turns out that the rumors of God’s death were premature. More amazing is that the relatively recent case for his existence comes from a surprising place—science itself. Here’s the story: The same year Time featured the now-famous headline, the astronomer Carl Sagan ...
Sunday, 28 December 2014
Washington Post “We know the numbers: one in five of every one of those young women who is dropped off for that first day of school, before they finish school, will be assaulted, will be assaulted in her college years.”–Vice President Biden, remarks on the release of a White House report on sexual assault, April 29, 2014“It is estimated that 1 in 5 women on college campuses has been sexually assaulted during their time there — 1 in 5.” –President Obama, remarks at White House, Jan. 22, 2014This is an update of an...
There has been much discussion in the Orthodox world regarding the Internet and its dangers. Internet is high on everyone's list of dangerous technologyFor those who need the Internet there has been grudging rabbinic permission granted - but only if is is properly filtered. The assumption is that the average religious Jew does not have the ability to withstand the temptations of pornography and heresy and well as bitul Torah or Internet addiction.The...
Times of Israel My name is Jesse Arm. I am a grandson of a former Conservative rabbi, a former student of a Conservative Jewish day school, a former president of the Detroit chapter of USY, and a former Conservative Jew.The last of those characteristics is the newest one attached to my identity. In fact, I made the decision to no longer classify myself in this fashion less than 24 hours ago, upon reading of the recent change...
Monday, 22 December 2014
Fox News A Pennsylvania woman convicted of downloading child pornography to frame her estranged husband must spend six months to two years in county jail.The Indiana Gazette reports 43-year-old Meri Jane Woods was sentenced Monday by an Indiana County judge who rejected her attorney's request for leniency and flexibility to start serving the sentence after the holidays.A jury previously found Woods downloaded 40 images to the family computer, took it to police in August 2013 and blamed Matthew Woods for the material.[....
Guest PostWas the Honorable Judge Amnon Cohen biased in the judgment of Zalman Cohen?Recently, Zalman Cohen was convicted and sentenced to 9 years as one of the Nachlaot Pedophiles from the alleged "Nachlaot Pedophile Ring". All of the material in this article is taken from either the Court Document of Zalman Cohen's verdict, or as a comparison, from the Court Document of Ben Tzion P. who was acquitted of all charges against him.The verdict for Zalman Cohen was based entirely on the testimony of four minors who testified against him, along...
Saturday, 20 December 2014
JPost The High Court of Justice ruled on Thursday that a rabbinical court was within its rights to retroactively annul a conversion because the convert in question had deceived the court when she said she undertook to observe Jewish law.The ruling could reopen the wounds of the conversion crisis in 2008 when the Supreme Rabbinical Court upheld a decision of a lower court that invalidated a woman’s conversion because it said she never intended to observe Jewish law when she converted. The ruling endangered the 40,000...
In late November the CBD joined the IBD forming a joint beis din [see post] that on December 1 publicly accepted the IBD's viewpoint.(see Frum Follies negative response) This event directly refuted the following analysis that Frum Follies published only 2 months before.Frum Follies (Yerachmiel Lopin) wrote: Meanwhile, the greater dispute about the seminaries continues. The CBD is not backing down from blocking accreditation...
Friday, 19 December 2014
For the next few weeks I will be in New York My main reason for announcing this is that are certain evil people whose main happiness in life is claiming that I have committed various sins.I have gotten gleeful messages when they have misread the time on some of my postings claiming that as proof that I am not shomer Shabb...
Wednesday, 17 December 2014
Why is Michael smiling? Could it be because he succeeded in blocking any extra time for Beth during Chanukah? Divided custody is rough on the children and rough on the parents. It is especially rough on the children when they are given only very limited time with their mother and are condemned by the courts to be raised primarily by 2 non-Jewish women whose native language is neither German or English. One constant in custody division is that courts...
Monday, 15 December 2014
I just received the following letter:Dear Rav Daniel EidensohnI send you the news about the new law about the Portuguese Nacionality for Sephardic Jews that will start at the beginning of the 2015. Can you publish it at Daat Torah_Best regards and Kol tuvDaniel Litvak=============================================== By Jewish Community of Oporto, PortugalShalom.In early 2015, the Portuguese Government may grant Portuguese nationality...
Berachos (55b) states that when a person becomes sick - he should keep it a secret for the first day. That is in order to not give Satan an excuse to harm him - by giving himself the status of a sick person. [See the Marhasha] On the other hand if the sickness does not go away and he is in fact a sick person the gemora suggests a different strategy to bring about a cure. Instead of keeping his weakened state a secret to protect against Satan...
Sunday, 14 December 2014
Slate The College Rape Overcorrection SEE article which refutes the statistical claims that are used to justify this policy Sexual assault on campus is a serious problem. But efforts to protect women from a putative epidemic of violence have led to misguided policies that infringe on the civil rights of men.[...] We are told that one of the most dangerous places for a young woman in America today is a college...
Rape Statistics for College 1995 2013 by US Government See Slate's article how Title IX has changed dealing with sexual abuse charges BreitbartThe campus rape crusade, which yielded positively Orwellian "consent rules" at some institutions, was driven in part by an oft-repeated, jaw-dropping statistic that one in five women are victimized by sexual assault during their time at college. The Justice Department just published...
Saturday, 13 December 2014
The recent issue of shielding or revealing the names of abuse victims - raised a number of questions. What in fact are the halachic, legal and moral perspectives. What if the court doesn't believe her story? Is there a difference if her name is known in the community already? The following article which was published in the Fordham Law Review - reviews the issues and states the law regarding rape victims as of 1993 in America. Apparently the...
NY Times Working, in America, is in decline. The share of prime-age men — those 25 to 54 years old — who are not working has more than tripled since the late 1960s, to 16 percent. More recently, since the turn of the century, the share of women without paying jobs has been rising, too. The United States, which had one of the highest employment rates among developed nations as recently as 2000, has fallen toward the bottom of the list.As the economy slowly recovers from the Great Recession, many of those men and women are eager...
NY Times Since Kerry Devine, 32, and her friends began having children, she has noticed a stark difference between her female friends in Auburn, Wash., where she lives, and those in England and Cyprus, where she grew up. In the United States, they almost all stopped working outside the home, at least until their children were in school. Yet, she says, she can’t think of a friend in Europe who left work after her children were born. [...]Her story would have played out differently, she said, if she had been living in her...
YNET A large number of haredi women are demanding that the political parties representing their sector allow women on their electoral lists for the first time in Israel's history.The struggle began on Facebook – under the slogan "no votes without representation", around 3,000 members of the social network have called for women to boycott the haredi factions in their current formulation.The feminist campaign was ramped up Friday morning by an open letter from a prominent public action group to the leaders of Shas and United...
Thursday, 11 December 2014
Frum Follies seems to have no more real issues to write about and has started attacking me with make-believe charges that arouse his groupies like sharks smelling blood. It is not enough that he makes up lies in the Meisels case - as I have documented. It seems now that he is attacking me in retaliation for exposing his lies. lies 1 lies 2 lies 3Yesterday he ran a post that falsely claimed that “Only-a-Hug” Eidensohn Christens...
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