Copyright 2012 Jewish Media Resources Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:59:42 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jewish Media Resources :: Writings http://www.jewishmediaresources.com (Jewish Media Resources) webmaster@jewishmediaresources.com en-us http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/1512/beshelach-5772-titanic-ii-and-yeridos-hadoros Wed, 1 Feb 2012 09:00:00 EST Titanic II and Yeridos Hadoros Rabbi Benjamin Blech had an interesting piece last week at Aish.com on the Costa Concordia disaster. A few years ago, Rabbi Blech served as he scholar-in-residence on a kosher cruise on the magnificent ocean liner. Guests... http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/1511/bo-5772-israeli-supreme-court-affirms-self Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST Israeli Supreme Court Affirms Self-Preservation -- Barely By a razor-thin 6-5 margin, the Israeli Supreme Court recently upheld a provision in the Citizenship Law that denies permanent residency rights to Palestinian spouses of Israelis, under a certain... http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/1510/bo-5772-israeli-supreme-court-affirms-self Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST Israel Supreme Court Affirms Self-Preservation -- Barely By a razor-thin 6-5 margin, the Israeli Supreme Court recently upheld a provision in the Citizenship Law that denies permanent residency rights to Palestinian spouses of Israelis, under a certain... http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/1509/who-picks-up-the-tab-for-media-manipulation Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST Israeli journalists are among the most mobilized in the Western world: They view their jobs as a soapbox to teach proper thoughts to the hoi polloi. The media's desire to shape the national agenda also makes it among the most easily manipulated in the... http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/1508/veeira-why-pick-on-tzniyus-beit-shemesh-metaphor Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST Why Pick on Tzniyus? My wife and I recently spent Shabbos in Tiveria at a Shabbaton for close to 150 female university students who have been studying weekly for the past few months under the aegis of the Nefesh Yehudi organization. The... http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/1506/my-brothers-do-i-seek Fri, 6 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST I came to full Jewish observance relatively late in life. I was nearly thirty and married when I first walked through the doors of Ohr Somayach. I don't fully remember the entire process of becoming religious. But certainly the most important element of... http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/1505/vayechi-5772-learning-from-shimon-and-levi-if Wed, 4 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST Learning from Shimon and Levi Kana'us is not a subject to which I thought to return so soon after Mishpacha's symposium on the subject. Unfortunately, the Channel Two video about a eight-year-old girl in Ramat Beit Shemesh, Naama Margolese, who was spit... http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/1504/vayigash-5772-getting-out-to-go-up-hammering Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:00:00 EST Getting Out to Go Up Success breads its own challenges. And the phenomenal growth of Torah learning in our times is no exception. The Torah community has produced, and continues to produce, thousands of fine talmidei chachamim. Only a limited number of... http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/1502/does-it-matter-whether-palestinian-nationalism-is Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:00:00 EST "A gaffe," Michael Kingsley once observed, "is when a politician speaks the truth." Ever since Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich told an interviewer, "Remember, there was no Palestine as a state – [it was] part of the Ottoman Empire. I... http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/1501/first-let-calm-down Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:00:00 EST To judge from the media, both Israeli and international, the status of women in Israel is under an assault of crisis proportions. No less a figure than U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has chimed in that the status of women in Israel reminds her of... http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/1500/greek-science-and-the-science-of-torah Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:00:00 EST Anyone who ever studied Talmud in depth knows how maddeningly difficult it can be to reach any firm conclusions. Certain proposed solutions are easily enough rejected as nonsense. But even the greatest commentators often reach radically different... http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/1499/false-zealotry-and-its-vicitims Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:00:00 EST During Chanukah we will tell the story of Mattisiyahu and his five sons, whose rebellion against the mighty Seulucid Greeks began with Mattisiyahu killing a Hellenized Jew bowing down to an idol. And it was the kana'us (zealousness) of Pinchos that... http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/1496/vayeishev-5772-the-joy-of-overcoming-oneself Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:00:00 EST The Joy of Overcoming Oneself A notice was recently posted in our building that the elevator will be repaired this coming week, and therefore not in use for the first four days of the week. I'm not quite sure how to take the news. On the one hand, lately... http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/1495/who-is-undermining-israeli-democracy Fri, 9 Dec 2011 09:00:00 EST In order to fully appreciate the absurdity of Court President Dorit Beinisch's charge that even the most minimal proposed changes in Israel's method of judicial selection represent an attempt to undermine "the democracy upon which our society rests," one... http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/1497/vayishlach-5772-zionism-is-no-longer-the-issue Wed, 7 Dec 2011 09:00:00 EST Zionism is not the Issue Last week I was in Manchester, England for the Big Tent for Israel (BTFI) gathering to combat delegitimization of Israel, which, according to a Reut Institute Report, has its hub of hubs in London. The initiator of the event was...