Pesach - Baseball and Judaism

The DovBear blog puts it beautifully here. A lovely read for Pesach.
Chag Kasher ViSameach!
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Canned Divrei Torah

From SchmoozEd, by Zvi Grumet. I’d be interested in your comments.
As we approach pesah I am reminded of the hours of preparation day school students undergo so that they can properly perform at the family Seder. That includes not only the requisite recitation of Mah Nishtanah (in 3 tunes and four languages), but the reams [...]

Caught out

I’m not posting my Dvar Torah from the DJC Friday night minyan, because Henry K called me on inaccuracies and restating the obvious.
Henry - I accept this as a challenge. Good to know that people are paying attention!
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New Client - TripSync.com

I’m excited to annnounce our newest client at Salem Global, TripSync.com. Their product and website are scheduled to go live on March 12 (in the meantime, there is already a site and a beta download). What’s it all about? See below. This is going to be BIG. Want more information? Give me a call or [...]

Change and Orthodoxy - a thoughtful post by R Josh Feigelson

In a recent dialog on Areivim, Rabbi Josh Feigelson (campus rabbi at Northwestern University) wrote an excellent post, which I have copied here with his permission. By the way, I corresponded with R Josh about Hillel activities in light of my previous post on Hillel Strategies, and was interested to find out that he follows [...]

In Defense of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah

Gil Student posted a letter from R Nati Helfgott, eloquently defending YCT from the recent trashing heaped on it by Yated Ne’eman. Oddly, Gil was afraid to post it on his own excellent Hirhurim site, but had no problem establishing a separate blog to post it on. Anyway, it’s worth a read.
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Megillat Esther and Zionism

At the DJC last Friday night, I presented a summary of Rabbi Howard Jachter’s 2004 essay. The most interesting thing is the parallels between the acceptance of Yom HaAtzmaut and of Purim by the contemporary religious communities in each case.
Read the whole thing here. 
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Purim

This year’s entries from the prolific and reliable Eli D. Clark (I don’t know him, but I have enjoyed his Purim humor in the past).
Jewish Reality TV
Carpool Ke-Hilchaso
Enjoy!
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