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	<title>Comments on: Forget Kiss Me Kate; Iranian Athlete Won&#8217;t Even Shake Her Hand</title>
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		<title>By: ziontruth</title>
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		<dc:creator>ziontruth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joshua is right. There are far too many examples of Jews striving to be so &quot;with the times&quot; that they&#039;re willing to throw authentic Jewish Law under the bus.

Some Jews don&#039;t want to be like &quot;those horrid Christians,&quot; so they support abortion. But Jewish Law says abortion is murder except for saving the mother&#039;s life.

Some Jews don&#039;t want to be like &quot;those primitive fundamentalist Muslims&quot; (always with an emphasis on &quot;fundamentalist,&quot; lest they be accused of &quot;Islamophobia&quot;), so they condemn the ideal of a boy and a girl having no physical contact before they&#039;re married. But Jewish Law requires this, for the rank and file at that, not just as an act of &lt;i&gt;hasidut&lt;/i&gt; (doing over and above what is required).

Some Jews have the slogan, &quot;Ethnic cleansing is not a Jewish value,&quot; and think that booting all the Arab colonists out of the Land of Israel should be out of bounds for discussion or even thought, let alone practice. But Jewish Law insists there&#039;s no other way for the Jewish nation to secure a peaceful existence in a state of their own on their one and only piece of land in the world.

Jewish Law speaks with its own, eternal voice, and that voice is not always Politically Correct. The fact that &quot;the times&quot; do not look favorably on some of its precepts is no more to the point than the fact that statue-worship was all the rage while monotheism wasn&#039;t in Antiquity.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Joshua is right. There are far too many examples of Jews striving to be so &#8220;with the times&#8221; that they&#8217;re willing to throw authentic Jewish Law under the bus.</p>
<p>Some Jews don&#8217;t want to be like &#8220;those horrid Christians,&#8221; so they support abortion. But Jewish Law says abortion is murder except for saving the mother&#8217;s life.</p>
<p>Some Jews don&#8217;t want to be like &#8220;those primitive fundamentalist Muslims&#8221; (always with an emphasis on &#8220;fundamentalist,&#8221; lest they be accused of &#8220;Islamophobia&#8221;), so they condemn the ideal of a boy and a girl having no physical contact before they&#8217;re married. But Jewish Law requires this, for the rank and file at that, not just as an act of <i>hasidut</i> (doing over and above what is required).</p>
<p>Some Jews have the slogan, &#8220;Ethnic cleansing is not a Jewish value,&#8221; and think that booting all the Arab colonists out of the Land of Israel should be out of bounds for discussion or even thought, let alone practice. But Jewish Law insists there&#8217;s no other way for the Jewish nation to secure a peaceful existence in a state of their own on their one and only piece of land in the world.</p>
<p>Jewish Law speaks with its own, eternal voice, and that voice is not always Politically Correct. The fact that &#8220;the times&#8221; do not look favorably on some of its precepts is no more to the point than the fact that statue-worship was all the rage while monotheism wasn&#8217;t in Antiquity.</p>
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		<title>By: Hundra the Warrior Woman</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hundra the Warrior Woman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 22:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe he was afraid that if he touched the Duchess his wanking hand might fall off!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maybe he was afraid that if he touched the Duchess his wanking hand might fall off!</p>
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		<title>By: Inessa</title>
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		<dc:creator>Inessa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 09:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps not on this blog, but in the media - yes. In May this year, Laurette Onkelinx, the Belgian Minister of Health met with her Israeli counterpart, Yakov Litzman, a Hasidic Jew, who politely refused to shake her hand, and explained that religious stricture prevented him from doing so. Ms Onkelinx was most indignant, wrote about this scandal on her official Facebook page, compared Litzman&#039;s actions to an Iranian official and went to town about the &quot;fundamentalist attitude&quot; and treatment of women.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Perhaps not on this blog, but in the media &#8211; yes. In May this year, Laurette Onkelinx, the Belgian Minister of Health met with her Israeli counterpart, Yakov Litzman, a Hasidic Jew, who politely refused to shake her hand, and explained that religious stricture prevented him from doing so. Ms Onkelinx was most indignant, wrote about this scandal on her official Facebook page, compared Litzman&#8217;s actions to an Iranian official and went to town about the &#8220;fundamentalist attitude&#8221; and treatment of women.</p>
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		<title>By: uncle joe mccarthy</title>
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		<dc:creator>uncle joe mccarthy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[an entire group of chasidim in upstate ny, used to kiss hillary clinton&#039;s ass regularly

mohmadeans are not shomer negiya...its all for show]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>an entire group of chasidim in upstate ny, used to kiss hillary clinton&#8217;s ass regularly</p>
<p>mohmadeans are not shomer negiya&#8230;its all for show</p>
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		<title>By: Joshua</title>
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		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So?  Would an Orthodox Jew who is observant of sh&#039;mirat negi&#039;ah receive the same scorn?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So?  Would an Orthodox Jew who is observant of sh&#8217;mirat negi&#8217;ah receive the same scorn?</p>
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		<title>By: Norman B.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Norman B.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 21:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some culture, coming from the land of the 30-minute marriage.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some culture, coming from the land of the 30-minute marriage.</p>
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