…the most consequential work of the Roberts Court in protecting corporate rights has been in cases that have gone mostly unnoticed, including a pair (A.T. & T. v. Concepcion and American Express v. Italian Colors)[…]
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Month: March 2016
“What’s the point of a reviewer in an age when everyone reviews?”
What’s the point of a reviewer in an age when everyone reviews? A common defense of the endeavor centers on three qualities: expertise, eloquence, and attention. Critics have essential skills that Blogging Bob does not.[…]
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“Modern Orthodoxy’s right wing must step up and join the real conversation”
Modern Orthodoxy’s right wing must step up and join the real conversation. The questions now are, is Modern Orthodoxy’s right up to the task, and who will emerge as the right’s real leader? The safe[…]
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“…although Modern Orthodoxy has produced many brilliant and dedicated leaders and laymen, it has yet to cultivate younger figures possessing the authority and broad appeal of its founding fathers”
The charge that the establishment lacks even a healthy amount of dynamism is undeniably correct. Indeed, the RCA’s long failure to have clearly articulated the reasons behind a rabbinical norm that has held for over[…]
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“Shoshana has been borrowed in Latin and European languages to become Susanna (and its pet forms: Susie, Sue, Susan, Suzanne)”
The lovely girl in Song of Songs is compared to a lily of the valleys, a lily among thorns (2:1-2). Shoshana is also a given name for girls, which translates to Lily or Rose. The[…]
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“…it is important for the halakhic community to understand that there needs to be different paths for different people…”
…it is important for the halakhic community to understand that there needs to be different paths for different people as not everyone has the same spiritual make-up. It is therefore important to have responsible halakhic[…]
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“If the accusation of heresy is bandied about constantly, with flimsy basis…, then it will lose any sort of meaning”
I worry that the constant misrepresentation of the boundaries of heresy, such that the mere lack of conformance to a very narrow vision of Orthodoxy is taken as unforgivable heresy, will have even more deleterious[…]
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“At the moment that our foundational religious stories began to echo too distantly in the past, a new storytelling rose to supplement what time threatened to take from us”
Hollywood is not only a fun factory of vapid entertainment. At times, Hollywood plays an important role. The role of the ancient storyteller. Hear its stories and draw from its wisdom. If we believe that[…]
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“…our society is defined by the revulsion and deep sense of soul searching that has followed each incident. Theirs, simply, is not”
When Baruch Goldstein murdered 29 Palestinians in cold blood in 1994, Israeli society was rocked to the core by the horrible thought that such a depraved terrorist could emanate from our midst. Same for the[…]
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“Western democracies desperately need to recapture basic values of citizenship, of shared participation in pursuit of the common good…”
Western democracies desperately need to recapture basic values of citizenship, of shared participation in pursuit of the common good, if they want to survive onslaughts from without, demoralization from within and maintain robust freedom. Yehudah[…]
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