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It’s about Freedom of Choice, not Freedom of Speech

May 22, 2012 – 10:14 pm | 3 Comments

By Anthony Frosh
As happened last year at Limmud Oz in Sydney, advocates of the destruction of the State of Israel have had their application to host a session rejected. And just as happened last year, …

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The Cost of Kosher

March 13, 2012 – 9:19 pm | 322 Comments

By Rabbi Meir Rabi
Cost is a strong negative influence that most people consider when evaluating Kosher foods and Kosher services. I distinctly recall being very uncomfortably unable to answer the plaintive question; “Rabbi, why is …

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A Distorted Conclusion

December 1, 2011 – 4:41 pm | 48 Comments

By Rabbi Meir Rabi
A Great Story, a Disastrously Distorted Conclusion, or What’s Wrong with Super-Orthodox Thinking
Let me say at the outset, I am making observations about a frailty of humanity ; its ability to inflict on itself outrageous, mind …

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A Disciple or a Mimic?

November 22, 2011 – 10:46 am | One Comment

By Rabbi Meir Rabi
I read that there is a very, very long wait to get Steve Jobs look-alike spectacle frames. I wonder what sort of a thrill, they who wait so patiently, actually experience when they first see …

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Let the Shofar Take You Places

September 8, 2010 – 7:52 am | One Comment

By Rabbi Meir Rabi
May this year be a peaceful year.
A year of challenges that prompt us to discover energies that have perhaps hibernated within us and are ready to blossom.
Everyone wants a sweet new year. …

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Rabbi Rabi reflects on the so-called soft matzah controversy

May 10, 2010 – 4:56 pm | 411 Comments

By Rabbi Meir Rabi
For background on soft matzah see this and this.
I wonder what constitutes a “controversy” or a “controversial pesak”?
Is it the tumult raised by parties who are not impartial?
By those who may have …

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Soft Matzah: Rabbi Rabi Responds to Rabbinical Council Criticism

March 26, 2010 – 10:16 am | 244 Comments

Yesterday Galus published an article by David Werdiger on the new soft, pita-like matzah that is available this year in Australia. As raised by commenters on that article, the Rabbinical Council of Victoria (RCV) issued …

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