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Rav Menashe Klein. Mishneh Halakhot. What Determines if One is Jewish? Is it Birth or Observing Torah and Mitzvot? That is, Does Lack of Observance Remove One's Jewish Status? The Unplanned Army Lecture. The Planned R' Theodore Friedman Debate.

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Rav Menashe Klein. Mishneh Halakhot. What Determines if One is Jewish? Is it Birth or Observing Torah and Mitzvot? That is, Does Lack of Observance Remove One's Jewish Status? The Unplanned Army Lecture. The Planned R' Theodore Friedman Debate. - May 24, 2026 - Jews in the galut in danger. Freud's explanation why children become frum. Cardinal Lustiger. Why R' Rakeffet wouldn't participate in Limmud program. R' Lamm differed. Beth Ephraim Synagogue, Maplewood NJ. Debate with R' T. Friedman. Catholic rabbi. Mishneh Halakhot 17:184 Netiv 10. Rabbis advocate not to say the word 'rasha' in Haggadah. Are non-believing Jews worse than religious Christians? Is Trinity avoda zarah for a non-Jew? Meiri's position. R' Sacks on religious non-Jews. R' Rakeffet's unplanned army lecture. Brit Avraham vs. Brit Sinai: Why they differ & are both necessary. Mishneh Lamelekh's two levels: The individual & the עם. Relate concept to Eretz Yisrael & to impact of sinners. Jewish soldier kills another Jewish soldier. Is being Jewish determined by birth or behavior? Are the non-observant considered Jews? Terumat Hadeshen 223: Yevamah: Dead husband's brother is now a believing Christian. Widow of brother is free. Rashi vs. Geonim. Ilya Essas – the phone call. Widow in Israel – Husband's brother is Communist in USSR. Is he considered a non-Jew, not an אח therefore no חליצה is needed? A chalitzah at YU. May one give charity to non-observant? R' Norman Amsel's book.

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