In an effort to shore up interest in the Reform Movement among rebellious, teenage boys, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, President of the Union for Reform Judaism, yesterday urged Reform Jewish leaders to consider promoting annual Nascar trips for teenage youth. “Look,…
I have previously questioned whether NCSY’s control of the 170 Jewish “Student” Union clubs operating in the public high school system, and which are used to recruit students to NCSY activities, is understood by parents or the average teen who…
(Provided the yeshiva students are from an Orthodox background). Rabbi Burg, the national director of NCSY, writes in the JTA that, Thousands of Orthodox students will soon head off for their post-high school year of study at a yeshiva in…
As some of you may be aware, all is not well in Frumville. At least, not for the Modern Orthodox. Their women suffer bleaching; they suffer stoning for not holding by the shabbos zmanim of Chassidim from Poland, as they…
In a recent post on Jewschool, I explained the issue of Ben Niddah (Jews whose souls are considered by the ultra-Orthodox to be defiled by menstrual blood. Such a category includes the vast majority of liberal and secular Jewry) in…
Rabbi Furman established a “very successful” branch of Ohr Somayach (a quiescent fundamentalist outreach organization) in Johannesburg, South Africa, and was the head of Ohr Somayach Savoy until the shit hit the fan. The Times (of South Africa) reports, Amid…
Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon is finished and now screening “Cut,” a provocative new documentary film about a traditional Jew from an Orthodox background rethinking circumcision. The film is respectful in questioning this most sacred held tradition, and Eliyahu explained at yesterday’s screening…
There are many aspects of the haredi (ultra-Orthodox, as opposed to Modern Orthodox) baal teshuvahs experience that aren’t properly understood by the recruits of the movement. One of the many considerations that need to be understood better and earlier in…
Failed Messiah has uncovered some interesting news on the career of Rabbi Matt Tropp, who lied to the court, attacked Lanner’s accusers, and pulled all sorts of foylashtick in order to protect his boss at the Orthodox Union’s NCSY because…well,…
We Jews rarely agree on anything. But you know what we apparently almost all agree on? We agree that achieving energy independence is important. That’s according to a recent American Jewish Committee poll. I mention this, because any Jewish organization…