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Category Archives: Loma Linda
Loma Linda University Healthcare Salaries
I went to Guidestar.org and found this 990 form filed for 2012, which listed salaries as follows: * Richard Hart: ~$500,000 * Kevin Lang: ~$863,000 * Ruthita Fike: ~$1,177,000 * Daniel Fontoura: ~$538,000 * Zareh Sarrafian: ~$525,000 * Steve Mohr: … Continue reading
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Loma Linda Vegans Have Highest Longevity?
A friend emails: “Is this true: “…the vegan Seventh-Day Adventists in Loma Linda, California … are the longest-living Americans”? I don’t believe you ever mentioned it. It’s incredibly significant if true.” Yes, I believe it is true. Jews are close. … Continue reading
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Loma Linda Is The Loneliest Adventist Community In The World II
I wrote a blog post on this theme a couple of months ago. I figured I’d ape my posts about the most prestigious Sabbath invites in Orthodox Judaism in Los Angeles with one about Loma Linda University. One problem — … Continue reading
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Tagged adventist community, Loma Linda, loma linda university, morning sermon, orthodox judaism, religion department, sabbath morning, video production specialist
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Very Rabbinic
I sent an Orthodox Jewish friend a link to my appearance on a Sabbath panel at Loma Linda University ten days ago. “You looked very rabbinic,” she said. “From the way you sat to the way you spoke, you seemed … Continue reading
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Tagged grasp, jewish friend, loma linda university, rabbi, Sabbath
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Seventh-Day Adventism – Life On The Margins
I spent last Sabbath at the Seventh-Day Adventist university of Loma Linda. During my 30 hours there, I spent a lot of time wondering why this group of Sabbath keepers lived on the margins of society while Sabbath-keeping Jews were … Continue reading
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Tagged burning to ashes, holocust, luke ford, old hag, Reform Judaism, sabbath keepers, sabbath keeping, university of loma linda
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Video Of My Panel Discusson On ‘Christians, Jews and the Sabbath after the Holocaust’
I make my first comments 30 minutes in. My voice has quite the nervous tremor and my hands play with my water bottle. I was hoping I’d appear smoother and calmer and cooler.
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Loma Linda Is The Loneliest Adventist Community In The World
Friday. 12:30 pm. As he began driving east on the Ten freeway from Santa Monica, he tried to free his neck of unnecessary tension. He tried to think up with his whole torso. He tried to let go of habitual … Continue reading
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Tagged adventist community, cynthia ozick, dave larson, freeway north, habitual postures, loma linda university, sabbath morning, sabbath sermon, traditional ties, unnecessary tension, yum yum yum
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The Lost Meaning Of The Seventh-Day
Cinema Paradiso is my favorite movie. “Six-year-old Salvatore, whose nickname is Toto, discovers his love for films early and spends every free moment at the local moviehouse — Cinema Paradiso, where he develops a friendship with the fatherly projectionist, Alfredo, … Continue reading
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