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Category Archives: Shmuley Boteach
Decoding Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
ChatGPT says: Per Alliance Theory: Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is a celebrity-broker and attention arbitrageur whose core function is to convert mass media visibility into personal authority while remaining only loosely accountable to any single Jewish alliance. He is not a … Continue reading
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Video of Cory Booker (D-NJ) Dancing with Shmuley Boteach on His Back in a Clown Suit
It’s naive to expect that Jews and blacks will have a lot in common. They are about as different as two peoples can be. Sure, at times, they are both cooperating members of the Coalition of the Fringe and have … Continue reading
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Profiled In Tablet Mag
Great article: [Shmuley’s dad Yoav] Botach’s manner with his son was impatient, dismissive. “You don’t need to be on the phone now,” he chastised Boteach at one point, in Hebrew. “OK, Abba, OK,” Boteach replied. I asked Yoav if he … Continue reading
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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Blasts His Chabad Critics
Shmuley Boteach writes: Since 1994 I have visited South Africa many times for lecture tours. On some occasions I was brought by my publishers to do national media tours on my books on marriage and relationships. On other occasions I … Continue reading
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Dennis Prager is slow to take offense
While he fights for what he believes in, Dennis Prager doesn’t indulge in feuds. He doesn’t say ugly things in private that become public and embarrass him. He’s never been caught in flagrantly unethical behavior. He’s never had a scandal. … Continue reading
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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Does Not Back Down
Yesterday I blogged about the televised conflict about Hollywood Jews between the Orthodox rabbi and the Jewish convert to Catholicism. Now Rabbi Boteach blogs: Now Coren has shoved his foot far deeper into his mouth with a personal diatribe against … Continue reading
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Tagged early morning flight, kosher meal, orthodox rabbi, personal insults, rabbi boteach, rabbi shmuley boteach
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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Vs Canadian TV Host Michael Coren
Rabbi Boteach is taking a lot of offense of late. At LimmudLA, he stormed out of one of his sessions (on his book Kosher Jesus) after 10 minutes because he was asked by a volunteer to keep the noise level … Continue reading
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Tagged christian motivation, elders of zion, Jewish Journal, michael coran, michael coren, orthodox jews, protocols of the elders of zion, rabbi boteach, rabbi shmuley boteach, workship
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Appreciating The Older Woman
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach writes: The unfortunate breakup of the marriage between Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher should be of interest even to those who have better things to do with their time than follow mindless Hollywood chatter and celebrity gossip. … Continue reading
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Tagged arnold schwarzenegger, celebrity gossip, demi moore and ashton kutcher, Eliot Spitzer, rabbi shmuley boteach, woman rabbi
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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s Brothers Sue Each Other
Case Type: Infliction of Emotional Distress (General Jurisdiction) Case#: BC471397 CASE NAME: JONATHAN BOTACH VS BARKOCHBA BOTACH ET AL Parties: BOTACH BARKOCHBA – Def/Res,BOTACH JONATHAN – Plaintiff & Plaintiff In Pro Per,BOTACH MANAGEMENT – Def/Res,BOTACH YOAV – Def/Res Attorneys: Date … Continue reading
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Questioning Evolution
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach writes: New York Times columnist Paul Krugman thinks Republicans are knuckle-dragging Neanderthals. In the not-too-distant future he sees a Republican half-wit winning the presidency and dragging America back to the Stone Age. “One of these years the … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change science, john maynard smith, new york times columnist, rabbi shmuley boteach, richard dawkins, york times columnist
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