Interesting Posts #53

1. Tzedek-Tzedek talks about the untimely death of a member of the community and how people from elsewhere came in and threw around threats of riots to prevent any chance of their being an autopsy.
I would posit that they feel it important to stick their noses in even when it is not just their people being "threatened" with autopsies is because if it happens anywhere, they probably feel, with religious people, and especially if it is allowed to get to the point where a rav might say it is muttar in any specific case, that will make it harder for them to prevent it in their own community in the future.

2. RivkA has a medical update.

3. LOZ's son Jr mourned the Beis Hamikdash. sort of.

4. Lost in Kollel says chutzpa is sometimes a good thing, and it works, and should not necessarily be dissuaded...

5. Our Shiputzim points out some good things about Israel in order to provide a counter-effect to the meraglim before 9 Av...