Popular Protest: Palestinian Leaders’ Greatest Fear?
Is the Arab Spring on its way to Gaza and the West Bank?
November 6, 2019
A Lesson on How Not to Handle Religious Pluralism in Israel
In protesting a benefit concert for a medical non-profit, Israeli feminists reveal that they are the intolerant ones.
On November 20, a tribute concert for Shlomo Artzi, the so-called “Israeli Bruce Springsteen,” was scheduled to take place in Tel Aviv, with the twin purposes of celebrating Artzi’s 70th birthday and raising money for Ezra l’Marpe, a non-profit that helps the sick obtain medical treatment. Yet Ezra l’Marpe’s founder, the ḥaredi rabbi and self-taught medical genius Avraham Elimelech Firer, canceled the concert abruptly after several performers protested over the fact that no female vocalist would be performing. At issue is the halakhic prohibition on men listening to women sing. Ruthie Blum comments:
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A Lesson on How Not to Handle Religious Pluralism in Israel
In protesting a benefit concert for a medical non-profit, Israeli feminists reveal that they are the intolerant ones.
In an Attempted Bashing of the Trump Administration, the “Washington Post” Inadvertently Reaffirms the Jewish History of Jerusalem
Ishaan Tharoor’s Cyrus problem.
The (Allegedly) Blind Rabbi and the Greatest Jewish Controversy of the 18th Century
Why did one great rabbi help a cantankerous social misfit and rabbinic genius tar a third rabbi as a heretic?
What’s an Orthodox Jew to Do about Modern Bible Scholarship?
The strengths and weaknesses of a recent study.