WholeHogBlog.com

Thinking Jewish

WholeHogBlog.com header image 4

Entries Tagged as 'Jewish Issues'

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Still Seen as Moral Authority?

June 6th, 2008 · No Comments

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or add your name and email to my blog announcement list. Thanks for visiting!It was a bit shocking to see a story in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Prominent Jews join boycott threat, citing Rabbi Shlomo Riskin as a prominent Rabbi and moral […]

[Read more →]

Tags: Jewish Issues · Jewish Values

Orthodox Rabbi in Contempt of Beth Din

May 28th, 2008 · No Comments

In the news business, journalists are often admonished by their editors not to “bury the lead.” That is, get to the heart of a story and put it in the first sentence or first paragraph.
Anthony Weiss of the Forward wrote a fine article about the unusual case in which a Secular Court is being Called […]

[Read more →]

Tags: Jewish Issues · Jewish Values

If you think…

March 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Years ago, when I was living in New Haven and was in business with my brother, one of our employees came to us with an advertising opportunity. He was a member of an organization at Yale called The Party of the Right. He wanted us to put an ad in their journal.
At the time I […]

[Read more →]

Tags: Jewish Issues