(RNS) — Among the findings: Most don’t join another religion after leaving but they also aren’t interested in coming back to the LDS church.
— Read on religionnews.com/2024/03/07/who-is-leaving-the-lds-church-8-key-survey-findings/
Links
What Bari Weiss got wrong (today) about crime in Austin
Schrodinger’s paratrooper
A long-running legal saga between two veterans of the Six Day War over the identity of one of the paratroopers in the celebrated picture of IDF soldiers liberating the Western Wall in 1967 has finally been resolved: both of them can claim to be the original of the photo.
— Read on www.timesofisrael.com/solomonic-ruling-2-paratroopers-can-claim-single-spot-in-iconic-six-day-war-image/
“It was like a comedy, except it was a tragedy.”
“I was initially dubious that a four-hour documentary on the U.S. naval intelligence officer who spied for Israel in the mid-1980s could sustain my interest, but I couldn’t have been more wrong,” says the Haaretz reviewer, Adrian Hennigan.
Gift link to story here:
‘Pollard’ shows the world something Israelis would prefer to forget
Bret Stephens’ sympathy for the defaming rapist
Paging the public editor
From Campus to Kibbutz: Vivian Silver’s legacy as a Jewish student leader | New Voices
For over a month, 74-year-old Vivian Silver was presumed to have been among those held hostage in Gaza.
Last week, it was discovered that Vivian was killed in the Hamas attack on October 7th, at Kibbutz Beeri.
A lifelong peace activist, Vivian began her activism as a founding leader of the Jewish Student Press Service – the organization now known as New Voices Magazine.
In revisiting the origins of her work as a key leader in the Jewish student movement of the 1970s, we honor her legacy – both in Israel-Palestine, and across US college campuses.
— Read on newvoices.org/2023/11/21/from-campus-to-kibbutz-vivian-silvers-legacy-as-a-jewish-student-leader/
A dissent
לא ברור לי שצום ותפילה תגובה מתאימה מרבני ארה״ב לרצח בקהילות שרובתם חילוניות, ובעיקר אחרי הגנתם היה נדחה לטובת הגנת מאמינים מתפללי בקברי קדושים. ועין משכתוב י. רוזנבלום, ״הזכה שבתפילות,״ וכו
Get-refuser defamation case dismissed by NY court
Lonna Ralbag, who has been an agunah for almost two decades, was sued for defamation and emotional distress by her husband’s family over anti-get-refuser protests that targeted them for aiding her get-refuser husband. Tuesday, the court dismissed the lawsuit.
Faith and doubt, Lubavitch style
Science says the Rebbe has been dead nearly 30 years. Faith, however….
In this essay, a Chabad educator talks about Gimmel Tammuz, the date of the Rebbe’s “death.”
https://collive.com/can-we-talk-about-our-gimmel-tammuz-reality/
Key paragraph:
“Every talmid [student] must know that we have a Rebbe that is with us today and that they can personally connect with the Rebbe today. They can write to the Rebbe today, via the Ohel and Igros Kodesh, and receive direct answers from the Rebbe to their individual challenges.”
The structure of the argument will be familiar to those of us who have followed the faith vs science debates in Orthodox and Conservative Jewish circles.