DovBear blogs at: DovBear. For lack of a better metaphor, please consider this blog a very large shabbos table, where we sit together and discuss the parsha, the news, and other events of the day. Sometimes we yell, often we gossip, and, once in a while, the talk turns salacious. Our arguments are lively, but at the end of the day, its all just talk. The views expressed in this blog are solely those of the author and do not represent the views of The Jewish Press
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All groups have a mix of both good and bad people; it's the ratio that differentiates us.
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Those who live lives of no sports, entertainment, or outdoor activities take what they can get.
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Here is why opponents of R Shteinman think you should oppose him too.
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Bring the professor and tell him off in a way the students can respect and understand.
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This reduces the halachic process to an entirely ad hoc system.
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Hundreds of thousands of Jews participate in Daf Yomi at some point.
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I wish there were a publication and verification process for gedolim.
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The Forward resents the hegemony of the Hasmoneans.
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Yehudis and Chana are not part of our holy Mesorah!
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We should view the Hillel and Shammai schools' dispute in the context of their founders.
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I am the crybaby, when he's the one who threw the original hissyfit
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Imagine a Google ad that brings together a Jew and an Arab who were separated due to the Nakba.
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Chief Rabbi Lau the Younger is not going to be big on reinterpreting traditional Jewish sources to meet contemporary problems.
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This post will attempt to explain how the idea of the crying angels developed.
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The question that I always have for those who are not invested in the revelation at Sinai is, why keep these 613 mitzvot?
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A competent preacher can make the Torah seem to support any cause he desires.
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The desire to have contact with the dead, especially one's own relatives, is apparently universal.
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The absolute worst things you can do is mistreat the powerless and to behave selfishly #GOP...
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The beast's tremendous bulk makes its continued existence impractical.
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Why did the Pope excommunicate every single Communist in the world, but never excommunicate a single Nazi?
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The Rabbis are not sharing Big Ideas, they're arguing about nothing more than the plain meaning of the verse.
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The people who wish to end online anonymity are often also the people who think Kolko got a raw deal and would like to stone kofrim in Times Square.
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G-d blessed Facebook’s CEO with this poignant lesson. Right as we approach the Day of Judgment, followed by times of Repentance, and the final celebration of Atonement, He blesses all of Israel with this lesson as well.
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DovBear Blog: Huge argument are raging right now on Twitter about the next big Internet Asifa scheduled for the end of May in Citi Field. DovBear briefly summarize the positions, and refutes them.



