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jdl4ever:
Chaim, do you think that there are any real Rabbis anymore?  Ever since the last generation of "Rabbis" did whatever they could to marginalize our great leader Horav Meir Kahane Zs'l and deny his achievements, I don't trust any Rabbi anymore and rely on my own study to make decisions.  I had my own experiences with "Rabbis" of this generation saying stupid things against the Torah (for example, most are either completely anti zionist, anti-Israel or pro "peace" with fakestinians) and they act arrogantly to hide their ignorance.  I think this generation is lacking of any real leaders, like the Tanach predicts that it will be a mixed up generation.  What percentage of Orthodox Rabbis in our generation do you think are real Rabbis?  So far I found none. 

Maccabi:
This is sort of a long question but I hope you can answer it in it's entirety:

One of the commandments is to "Honor your mother and father"...But what if your parents are secular?

Is it a sin to feel anger and hatred towards a parent under any circumstances?

I love my parents a lot now, but

I was raised completely secular, celebrating Christmas

I have said some pretty nasty things to my parents, and the other day, my dad was talking about one of the socialist-type academic conferences he attended in Germany and I blurted out that I thought he was a fool for travelling to this country. (He's always attending these sort of Euro-socialist academic conferences to speak about family and health-care systems etc...)

I said I would never travel to Germany, let alone hobnob with their academics.

Then he countered with the relativist "What about the American Indians argument" and "So you want to blame them for what their parents did..." He is very sociable and has lots of European friends. My dad is popular, charismatic and has a lot of friends and his students all love him. I'd say he is also clever at dealing with academic politics.

I absolutely hated my parents when they were married...it was a living nightmare. 

I actually love my parents now, even though they are misguided, and I think they misguided me...Now that they are divorced, I get along with each of them great and I can deal with them individually fine. I am so much happier now that my parents are divorced.

But how can you "Honor" someone who is secular?  I mean, if we are supposed to listen to our parents, but they have no belief and cause you confusion, what then? 

takebackourtemple:
   A lot of people receive rabbinical degrees in the US. Sometimes I receive resumes from people who took off after college to study torah and have a gap of no technical education and no technical work experience. I always try to use their ability to speak Hebrew in order to find them positions for Israeli customers. To my shock, most of them cannot speak conversational Hebrew. I understand that they study Torah, Talmud, Midrash and other great works which were not written in Modern Hebrew, but would at least expect them to have some level of ability to communicate in a Hebrew conversation. My two questions pertaining to this observations are:

   1: What mininum levels of competancy in Modern Hebrew would you expect to be taught as part of the curriculum for the most common rabbinical degrees?
   2: If someone chose to not learn Modern Hebrew with the genuine intention of learning to not only study texts, but to also speak and communicate in Biblical Hebrew as it is written in the written torah, would that serve as an acceptable substitute for earning a rabbinical degree?

ape:
Dear Chaim,
  Is there any hope for Queens to regain a white majority in the future?

DownwithIslam:
I feel I have to disagree with you about your statement last week in which you said Non religious Jews cannot be at the helm of a Kahanist party. Baruch Marzel, Effie Eitam, Ovadia Yosef and Eli Yishai are all examples of Religious Jews who can only be trusted to run a whorehouse. I feel it should be on a person to person basis. This argument is meaningless anyways as in my opinion, you are the only one who should be in control of Israel. I trust only you Chaim with the safety of Jewish people in Israel.

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