Daily Archives: January 18, 2015

Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Says YICC Wanted To Record His Shabbat Talks

In this 2014 talk, Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff says (about 37 minutes in): “I had this shaila (rabbinic question) at Young Israel of Century City. They wanted to record me [on Shabbat]. This way they can hear it again. They have … Continue reading

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Dennis Prager ‘No Tzaddik’

The only leading Orthodox rabbi who frequently cites Dennis Prager is Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff. In this talk, Who Can You Trust?, he says: “Dennis Prager, who is not a tzaddik (righteous man) considering the education he got and the home he … Continue reading

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I Don’t Expect Muslims To Care About Non-Muslims

I don’t spend much time thinking about Muslim suffering so I don’t expect Muslims to spend much time thinking about non-Muslim suffering. The Los Angeles Times reports today: French Muslims resent scrutiny after Charlie Hebdo attack “To be honest, most … Continue reading

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IQ Correlates With Goodness

Not all high IQ people are moral, but high IQ people are more likely to empathize, to understand the benefits of cooperation, and to the see the future more clearly. In the 2014 movie, A Most Violent Year, about an … Continue reading

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Israel As An Ethno-State

Chaim Amalek: “Israel’s fundamental problem with Western elites is that it is to them an embarrassing anachronism, an ethno-state that is a throwback to a time when nations like the United States and Great Britain had a racial sense of … Continue reading

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