User talk:Yodamace1

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Rejection of Tanakh

Hi Yoda: Please see and vote at Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2005 December 12#Category:Hebrew Bible where it is beeing suggested that the word "Tanakh" is "not neutral", and I am trying to explain to them that it is in keeping with NPOV to convey the way Judaism uses certain terms to describe the Hebrew Bible/Tanakh. Thanks. IZAK 15:37, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Jewish lists etc.

Hi. I am not really that insistent that we keep the Reform viewpoint, it is just that using that principle strictly it will mean we cannot list or categorize people who certainly have a place in Jewish history like Felix Mendelssohn. Would you accept a proposal where Orthodox law is used as the main guide to who be included accept in a few exceptional circumstances as above? Thanks Arniep 19:36, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Actually I am uncertain whether Mendelssohn would be considered Jewish under Halakha or not. I know his mother's brother Jakob Salomon converted to Christianity and changed his surname to Bartholdy and his sister Lea and brother in law Abraham Mendelssohn were baptised in a Lutheran church in 1822, 13 years after Felix Mendelssohn's birth. Arniep 19:50, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I am just learning here, please be patient :) I think it would be very sad not to allow any lists of notable people in Jewish history. Really it is only User:Vulturell who started including people with only one Jewish grandparent so I think we should just ask this user to stop doing that and then correct the lists and remove any frivolous ones that have been made. Would you accept a proposal on these lines? Thanks Arniep 19:56, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Nathan of Breslov

Thanks for the good suggestion about changing the title of this page from "Nathan of Nemirov." I checked with an administrator and got the go-ahead to move the page to its new name. Yoninah 00:03, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Banning of a vandal

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I hope this answers your questions, if you have any more, please feel free to ask. --Darth Revert ^{(AKA Deskana)} (talk) 23:27, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Refactor

Any reason why you refactored Talk:Moshe Feinstein[1] with no explanation? JFW | T@lk 15:25, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

I would strongly recommend using editing summaries to avoid misunderstanding. JFW | T@lk 15:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Thx. --Yodamace1 15:45, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the Barnstar-Megaphone award

Dear Yoda: Yasher Koach to you for awarding me with the Barnstar-Megaphone award. I look upon it as a "Medal of Honor" with all the recent "goings on". Thank you for all your thoughtfulness! Best wishes, IZAK 19:54, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Vfd and Vfm

Hi Yodamaca1, please see

• Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Jews_and_Judaism
• Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Books_critical_of_Judaism

Many thanks, Nesher 13:28, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Satmar Niggunim

they dont usually sound like this at a tish though - you can hear examples of real tishes on google video by searching satmar Itzik18 07:25, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Israel bilateral relations

Hi, I could use some support in opposing merging Israel-Venezuela relations into (nothingness) Foreign policy of Hugo Chávez. Anything you can add to Israel-Venezuela relations, Israel-New Zealand relations, and Israel-Japan relations would be very appreciated. Respectfully, Republitarian 17:30, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Freelance Kiruv Maniac

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Kol Yaakov Torah Center

Please take a look at the Kol Yaakov Torah Center article. I tried cleaning it up. User:Talmudscholar is adding horrible untrue stuff to this and other articles. Chocolatepizza 00:51, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Chabad

I saw the edits you made to the chabad controversy article. Very interssting stuff - do you have any soureces for it, I would like to (a) rad more about it and (b) add them to the article. David Spart (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) 00:48, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Ger and Lubavitch acceptance of Zionism

BS"D

The edit summary was saying that Lubavitch only started accepting the state in the '60s, 10 years after der Rebbe Olov Hasholom accepted the nesius. And lubavs are notorious for not following the policy of the chassidus. Most lubavs have started strongly accepting the state, though this is coming from a lubav who is a follower of the Edah Hachareidis. and Ger is known for having sent people to the kenesset, not even belz or vizhnitz have done so. --Shuli 21:43, 6 April 2007 (UTC) P.S. any response should go to my talk page

Vizhnitz is black and white on the issue. Vizhnitz B'nei Brak is semi-neutral, but leans to the anti-side and Vizhnitz New-York is a staunch ally w/satmer on the issue. The B'nei Brak branch, while being a member of Agudas Yisroel of E. Yisroel, chooses not to send people to the Knesset. BTW, I Learn by Ner (yisroel) in Baltimore, and it is known as an anti (in the degel hatorah sense) Zionist yeshiva. I am personally among the slightly more leftist (politically) about "medinas Yisroel". --Shuli 14:24, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

I should clarify 2 things. I don't learn there full time. I go to BTDCS, which is way too modern for my liking, so I have a chavrusa at ner who I learn w/every day. 2nd, my rebbeim aren't Edaniks, but rather I group w/eda because R' Ruderman is quoted extensivley in the Edah Hachareidis lit. I am also a descendant of the Rebbe Rashab of Lubavitch(and I am a Baal teshuva through chabad, though I have relatives who are breslover, thats always fun) who as we know was considered more anti-zionist than Reb Yoelish of Satmer. So, let that be known. --Shuli 18:38, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Misunderstanding

You write "you want to reformat fine, but how DARE you remove the source? That takes some real gall." I think this is directed at me. You seem to have misunderstood. I simply moved the text down into the "prevalence" section, leaving a summary in the lead, per WP:MOS. I think I made that clear in the edit summaries. The lead should only contain a summary of the various positions around. David Spart (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) 17:07, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

You don't ususally need sources in the lead, unless the statement is particularly likely to be controvertial, but again it dosen't really matter. David Spart (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) 23:36, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Please get involved

On Talk:Modern attempts to revive the Sanhedrin. --Bear and Dragon 15:46, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Haredi Criticism

I re-tagged Haredi Criticism for speedy deletion ({{db-attack}}), and it has already been deleted (Good riddance). Also, I enjoyed your edit summary here.--DLand^TALK 02:16, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Please respond

Hi Yodamace: It would be very helpful if you would take a look at Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2007-04-29 Mezhbizh (Hasidic dynasty)#Summary Conclusions / Understanding and see if that is what the "understanding" truly is. Thanks so much and have a good Yom Tov. IZAK 10:20, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Always place new messages at the BOTTOM of talk pages.

Hi Yodamace1: All new messages on Wikipedia talk pages are always placed at the BOTTOM of the page (and not as you did twice on my talk page [2] [3], leaving messages at the top, which I did not notice in time.) This has been standard procedure for a very long time, see Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines#New topics and headings on talk pages: "Start new topics at the bottom of the page: If you put a post at the top of the page, it is confusing and can also get easily overlooked. The latest topic should be the one at the bottom of the page." Hope this helps. Sincerely, IZAK 12:25, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Schachter

http://www.therav.net/gallery/gallery.htm Video of the Rav Visiting with the Lubavitcher Rebbe in Crown Heights, January 28, 1980. Scroll to item entitled "Excerpts: the Rebbe and the Rav". The Rav was accompanied by Rabbi Herschel Schacter, former chairman of the Conference of Presidents of American Jewish organizations. (Note, this Rabbi Herschel Schacter is a different person than the Rabbi Hershel Schachter of RIETS. Note the different spelling of first and last names. Rabbi Schacter happens also to be father of Rabbi J.J. Schacter, the former director of the Soloveitchik Institute. Chocolatepizza 14:34, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Requests for mediation/Mezhbizh (Hasidic dynasty)

A request for mediation has been filed with the Mediation Committee that lists you as a party. The Mediation Committee requires that all parties listed in a mediation must be notified of the mediation. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Mezhbizh (Hasidic dynasty), and indicate whether you agree or refuse to mediate. If you are unfamiliar with mediation, please refer to Wikipedia:Mediation. There are only seven days for everyone to agree, so please check as soon as possible. IZAK 16:58, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Request for Mediation

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Touching base

How is Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2007-04-29 Mezhbizh (Hasidic dynasty) going? Vassyana 07:21, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Noah Feldman

Do we really need such an encyclopaedic account of those criticizing Noah Feldman's account of modern Orthodox Judaism? Perhaps just a representative sample, to keep the section down to size. Wikipedia oughtn't be an exhaustive catalogue of debate ripostes. Cjs2111 19:58, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

HLA

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Merge

I've just proposed merging Unification Church and antisemitism (which you worked on) into Divine Principle. Please join in the discussion, if you like. Steve Dufour (talk) 15:47, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Greetings Mr. Pelta

Hello Mr. Pelta, I'm a collegue of your at Touro College South, and I wonder if you can guess which friend of yours i am....all the best!!!--Petergriffin9901 (talk) 23:36, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Larry Domnitch

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Proposed deletion of Moshe Meiselman

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