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Anas Sarwar after winning the Scottish Labour leadership contest. Picture date: Saturday February 27, 2021. Via Jewish News
Anas Sarwar has been made leader of the Labour party in Scotland. You wouldn’t think that would create another row, but the appallingly ignorant deputy leader of the Labour party, Angela Rayner, congratulated him on being the first member of an ethnic minority to reach that position. Forgetting Ed Miliband.
A man signs a petition at a demonstration for women s rights held outside the Rabbinical court for divorces in Jerusalem.
Husbands who refuse their wives a religious divorce are more likely to be prosecuted following “momentous” changes to the government’s Domestic Abuse Bill.
A man who refuses a
get will now be clearly recognised as exerting controlling and coercive behaviour, which is listed as a criminal offence under the Serious Crime Act of 2015.
If found guilty, an offender could face up to five years in jail.
While
get refusal could previously have been considered a criminal offence under the 2015 Act, experts say the law was ambiguous and had yet to be fully tested in court. New amendments to the Act, combined with the Domestic Abuse Bill, have now eradicated any doubt.
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Rabban Yochanan Ben Zakai’s Strategy On Choosing a Marriage Partner By Rabbi Haim Jachter | February 24, 2021
Go Down a Level and Marry
I recently had an extended conversation with a group of TABC graduates about choosing a marriage partner. One alumnus cited an astounding Gemara (Yevamot 63a) that shockingly advises “go down a level and marry a woman.” Rashi (ad. loc. s.v. Nahit Darga) explains, “Do not marry a woman who is on a higher level than you, lest she may find you unacceptable.”
The talmid was very surprised to find the Gemara advising us to lower our standards when seeking a mate! He noted how much we emphasized in our TABC shiurim on Sefer Melachim the critical importance of choosing a proper mate. He recalled how we learned that Shlomo Hamelech, Achav, and Yehoram ben Yehoshafat married women (Bat Paroh, Izevel, and Atalia, respectively) who led to their husbands’ spiritual downfall. Accordingly, why does the Gemara encourag
The real way to combat your privilege is by apologizing for it in every possible context
A guide to political discourse in 2021
So you want to join the conversation, impress others as politically aware, be a modern-day Renaissance man er, we mean, person who respectfully admires but does not appropriate or attempt to imitate other cultures? Look no further than this guide to impressing others with your shallow pseudointellectualism, regardless of where they fall on the political spectrum.
Sorry for Woking You Up
Want to look woke? It’s all about the apologies recognize that whoever you’ve become, whatever you’ve achieved, it’s all due to your privilege. The house you bought? Privilege. The job you have? Privilege. The shalach manos with matching themed costume? I have never heard of anything so privileged in my life.