Contrarian Jews, Leftists vs. Liberals, Chareidi Violence, Dybbuk [Roundup]

Its been a while since my last roundup, so heres another one. Expect to see me often in the comments section of posts I link.

• Yeshiva Guy has a post on contrarian Israeli's. I don't think its any more Israeli than Jewish though. (There we go again :) Reminds me of a quote of R' Yaakov Emden. He said that the reason Jews answer Aleichem Shalom to Shalom Aleichem is because the're contrarian.
• E-Man posts an index to his commentary on (a tiny subset of) the Rambam's Mishnah Torah. I'm new to his blog but it looks interesting.
• JoeSettler on the difference between Leftists and Liberals. Anyone else heard of this distinction?
• Not Brisk writes a post in Hebrew and seems to play as if it comes from someone else. Explains admits in the comments.
• Emes Ve'emunah has a post with evidence 'proving' that violence is part of (insular) chareidi culture. Reminds me of a pithy quote from R' Berel, the son of the Brisker Rav: "The difference between a horse & buggy and a train is not that a buggy's wheels are wooden and a trains wheels are metal." Even if its true.
• Life In Israel has an investigative report on the dybbuk. Some interesting new details.
• Muqata investigates a recent story, with some surprising results.
• Garnel Ironheart has a post criticizing YCT's ordination of a "Rabbah". Particularly,

Read it again and you can see that this is what Rabbis Weiss, Kanefsky and Rabba Hurwitz believe, that the halacha is discriminatory... For the genuine Orthodox Jew, there are two principle considerations when dealing with clashes between halacha and modern values. The first is that our approach to modern values is guided by the halacha, not vice versa. The second is that no halachic value is bad.

This last sentence has already been eroded by some run-of-the-mill MO bloggers, with differing reasons. So its not totally new.