I'm also doing a bunch of google searches to see if Scientology has any charities beyond "home schooling for children".

Yes, but 911 possibly is.

This story raises so many questions. Barring the fact that Operation Rescue is monitoring 911 calls and revealing sensitive PHI (why haven't they been sued yet for HIPAA violations?), I don't understand why this nine-month old fetus underwent an "abortion". Do they mean induced labor? How long did the mother know…

Brenda Strong is TALL.

What? What kind of perfect beautiful world do you live in that they're just "average"?

This is bad. The fact that this is the first wave of companies who have filed suits, and obviously more are coming, means that Obama and co will probably cave on this in about 0.000002 more milliseconds.

Well said.

I wasn't clear, sorry. This isn't about "There shouldn't be loud singing." This is about the fact that it's not women praying or anything, which is generally unnoticed and not commented on. And that, of course, I was responding to the OP comment that women are indeed at the Wall, and that this isn't about them…

Also, the woman in the above picture is wearing the head tefillin wrong. Just saying.

You'll see. The women in the Ph.D field will get slimmer and slimmer as the men in the top positions start telling them things like having a family means that they're not "committed" to science, and rewarding men disproportionately.

Actually, THIS was the obnoxious reply:

Love it!

This post is talking about the Women of the Wall. They want very specific things, like the right to lead services. It's different than praying, because you're commandeering a specific type of prayer service. For the Women of the Wall, it's more like a loud group singing session. Many people pray there in a kind of…

That's because what the post was about is the right to lead services at the site. All women are allowed to be there and pray (or not).

On the surface, it seems like what you said is so TRUTH BROTHER! But really, it's wrong in every single sentence.

So well put! Amazing analogy.

No Orthodox man or woman believe that women shouldn't be educated. You can read what I wrote to tabrazinski.

No. They weren't doing it because they didn't believe she should go to school at all. They were doing it because they want the building for themselves, and are trying to intimidate the current school there - via the pupils - into voluntarily abandoning the site. I'm not saying they're right - their ends don't…

Absolutely true. It frustrates me that women aren't given more visibly leadership roles, mostly because (a) men won't give it to them (b) women are socialized to try and be less visible (c) even when women are acting in that leadership fashion, they don't claim the title for themselves. I can't tell you how often a…

Believe it or not, ultra-Orthodoxy is definitely not the right terminology here. I know it's easy to label, and to pretend that the guys wearing the funny sidecurls and black coats and fur hats are the ones doing all the posturing here, women reading from the Torah is not the custom is any form of Orthodoxy. Modern…