Interesting Posts and Articles #233

1. A reversal of the Shabbos elevator ban? See here and here.
   
   
2. Bad 4 Shidduchim on what constitutes flirting.
   
   
3. At DovBear, an implicit comparison between typical Jewish education and kollel, on the one hand, and the castrati, on the other?
   
   
4. Emes veEmunah on prejudice against chareidim in the workplace. Is he blaming the victim?
   
   
5. In the Pink about advice not to spend time with one's fiance.
   
   
6. Menachem Mendel points us at a YNet article about the Steinsaltz Talmud, and how it is about to be finished.
   
   
7. In the movie 2012, they aren't destroying the Kaaba, because of fear of a fatwa.
   
   
8. Rav Elyashiv that there is no inyan of davening particularly 40 days at the kotel.
   
   
9. On autistic jurors.
   
   
10. Rationalist Judaism has the latest "ban", on laundry detergent.
    
    
11. Here at parshablog, should we Bowdlerize midrashim for small kids, or is it preferable to simply omit it?