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Slander and Strawmen

JL;DR SUMMARY In this critique, Natan Slifkin addresses a speech by Rabbi Aharon Feldman discouraging Anglo-Chareidim from joining IDF hesder programs. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Secular JudaismJewish IdentityIdfReligious ZionismChareidimHesderNatan SlifkinAharon FeldmanChashmonaim

Places mentioned

Baltimore, Maryland, United States
"It was delivered by R. Aharon Feldman, Rosh Yeshiva of Ner Yisrael in Baltimore."
Beit Shemesh, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"I have a student in my yeshiva who was born in Beit Shemesh."

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