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Haredim Should Serve in the Army – Lessons from Parshat Bamidbar
By Yaakov Gorr
This week’s parsha, Bamidbar, reveals the missing 614th commandment, particularly relevant as Israeli lawmakers debate drafting Haredi youth to the army. Twenty-year old Jews are told to enlist in the army.
From the first …
Victorian Greens dealing with Levitical Leprosy
By Yaakov Gorr
Whilst Shabbos shul-goers were leyning Parashat Metzora, the Victorian Greens were in their State Conference and dealing with a leprosy of a different kind. A representative of the Greens’ NSW branch had been …
More debate please – Pluralist panel offers too much agreement
By Yaakov Gorr
Parsha Korach is a great reminder that Judaism is known for its great debates and great debaters – not only debates between Moshe and Korach but debates between Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Ishmael, …
Applying Rambam to the Indian Business World
By Yaakov
I’m sitting in a bare concrete room, no telephone, no computer, only a desk, a couch, a few battered chairs and two cupboards stacked with dusty papers. The ceiling fan isn’t running because the …
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