[Avodah] Reading Newspapers and Other secular Literature on Shabbos

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 12:04:29PM +0000, Professor L. Levine via Avodah wrote:
: Please see http://personal.stevens.edu/~llevine/Reading%20Newspapers%20on%20Shabbos.pdf
: The author points out that many are unaware of these halachas.

And yet, the Netziv spend Friday night reading the haskalishe newspapers.
One of the things in My Uncle the Netziv, a translation of excerpts from
the Torah Temimah's Meqor Baruch, that got BMG to recall a mailing of
them a couple of decades ago.

Add to the list of issues with rewriting the past that it can cause an
artificial evolution of halakh.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha