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Comment on Obama’s Advocacy of Gay Marriage: An Alternative Orthodox Response – by Rabbi Zev Farber by yael

yael — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 11:18:28 +0000

Actually, uncle and niece is a halachically acceptable shidduch. Abraham and Sarah, for example.

Comment on Obama’s Advocacy of Gay Marriage: An Alternative Orthodox Response – by Rabbi Zev Farber by Garnel Ironheart

Garnel Ironheart — Thu, 31 May 2012 12:45:19 +0000

President Obama has not explicitly endorsed intermarriage. If he were to come out and say “I think the idea that Jews who only want to marry other Jews is racist. They should all marry non-Jews so we can be one happy nation” then I think the OU and NCYI would come out and condemn it.

Comment on Obama’s Advocacy of Gay Marriage: An Alternative Orthodox Response – by Rabbi Zev Farber by Paul

Paul — Wed, 30 May 2012 00:08:18 +0000

To my knowledge, intermarriage is not labeled by God as an abomination. It is a terrible thing for the Jewish people, but it is not an abomination. Therein lies the most significant difference IMHO.

Comment on Obama’s Advocacy of Gay Marriage: An Alternative Orthodox Response – by Rabbi Zev Farber by Anon

Anon — Tue, 29 May 2012 22:51:21 +0000

President Obama also endorses legal intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews! Which has been legal for most or all of U.S. history – and is much, much greater threat to Jewish marriage, and is also banned under Jewish law.
Why has the OU and NCYI not come out and condemned this position, or at least lobbied in NY state and elsewhere to ban it?

Comment on Davening Among the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes – by Rabbi Zev Farber by Paul

Paul — Tue, 29 May 2012 14:02:24 +0000

The following is what I believe to be overwhelmingly true, but certainly there are some exceptions.

The fact is that feminism has hurt our society more than it has helped it. Men and women generally have different strengths and when the woman is doing the man’s job and the man is doing the woman’s job, the result is an inefficient society. It would be like playing Albert Pujols at Shortstop. It is inefficient, and has contributed to the fact that the western world isn’t able to sustain itself procreatively. Everyone is too busy being inefficient, and have no time to have more than two kids (1.9).

Besides, I think women have no place in men’s locker rooms…but some of you have given up common sense for political correctness.

So let me see if I get this straight….the Jewish woman doesn’t count despite the fact that it is the Jewish woman that determines the religion of the child. How is that sexist?

A married man has as many stringencies in dealing with the opposite sex as his wife in terms of no touching, being alone in a room, etc…

Chazal say a man should live according to his means but honor his wife in a manner above his means….

It is a man’s duty to please his wife….

Frankly, I think Torah Judaism has it right, and you guys on the left are blinded by your silly political correctness.

I acknowledge that to whatever extent it is the man’s failure to appropriately value the traditional woman’s role in our society (most importantly within the sphere of Torah Judaism) that has caused this, then surely we (men) have what to be sorry for. However, it does not justify feminism as the proper Torah hashkafic response.

Paul Stein

Comment on Davening Among the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes – by Rabbi Zev Farber by Arlene Appelrouth

Arlene Appelrouth — Sat, 26 May 2012 16:58:28 +0000

I am horrified by your words Specifically: The Feminism that emerged in the 60′s and 70′s in this country has wreaked havoc on American society. It has destroyed the nuclear family as the center of our society and is responsible for rampant promiscuity and the murders of millions of unborn children.
As a woman who came of age during the 60s and supported the rights of women to have the same opportunities as men, I cheered the women’s movement which opened the doors for women to fully participate in their careers, and have the opportunities to use their education to that end.
A society which demands or expects women to live according to outdated sexual stereotypes is what is doomed.
When I graduated from college and was already an experienced journalist, I was faced with a culture that did not offer options for women who desired both professional success while also pursuing the traditional roles of wife and mother.
I was a stay at home mother, not by choice, but because there was no infrastructure to help me raise my children and also work in my profession. I free-lanced when I could and kept my skills current in volunteer positions.
Today, my 39-year-old daughter has it all. She is married,works as an attorney, and also has two well adjusted pre-schoolers. She lives in a suburb of Washingon, DC, filled with dual career couples, whose nuclear families are whole. All of this never would have been possible, without the feminist movement.
The U.S. Constitution guarantees rights to women as well as men. Nuclear families are created by both women and men Both sexes are charged with the responsibility of maintaining healthy, nuclear families.
How dare you blame feminism for deleterious realities that are obviously created by all the members of our culture?

Comment on Obama’s Advocacy of Gay Marriage: An Alternative Orthodox Response – by Rabbi Zev Farber by Moshe Averick

Moshe Averick — Fri, 25 May 2012 22:50:51 +0000

Melville,

I didn’t mention it explicitly but I think the entire thrust of the article was to present the slippery slope concept through satire. I also wanted to keep it short and to the point. I have written about the slippery slope:

http://www.algemeiner.com/2011/08/29/a-plea-to-atheists-pedophilia-is-next-on-the-slippery-slope-let-us-turn-back-before-it-is-too-late/

good shabbos, good tom tov,

Moshe

Comment on A powerful article on recent Rabbinical advocacy of reparative therapy for gay orthodox Jews by Moshe Averick

Moshe Averick — Fri, 25 May 2012 22:30:56 +0000

Here is my take on the matter. An article entitled: “Married Men Can Finally Come Out of the Closet”

http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/05/25/married-men-can-finally-come-out-of-the-closet/

Sincerely, Moshe Averick

Comment on Obama’s Advocacy of Gay Marriage: An Alternative Orthodox Response – by Rabbi Zev Farber by Moshe Averick

Moshe Averick — Fri, 25 May 2012 22:29:09 +0000

Here is my take on the whole push for acceptance of homosexual marriage, etc.

An article entitled, “Married Men Can Finally Come Out of the Closet”

http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/05/25/married-men-can-finally-come-out-of-the-closet/

Sincerely, Moshe Averick

Comment on Obama’s Advocacy of Gay Marriage: An Alternative Orthodox Response – by Rabbi Zev Farber by Melville

Melville — Fri, 25 May 2012 22:04:31 +0000

Though I thought it was a good essay, I just thought of a second thing that I felt your article missed. You didn’t mention anything about slippery slopes. I know full well that one can’t just toss in the “slippery slope” argument whenever he feels like it. Sometimes it’s no good. But then, sometimes it is good. But your article didn’t even address it.