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Category Archives: Personal
My Perfect Woman
On Shabbos, a friend said he’d given up on looking for shidduchim (match) for me. “You want a religious girl who dances on a pole.”
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More Fragile Than I Expected
Everybody I meet, everybody I get to know, is more fragile than I expected. More moody. More sensitive. More vulnerable. More crushed by life (with few exceptions). I remember meeting Joe Montana in the summer of 1985 when the San … Continue reading
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How many plooks till you’re out?
I would never have a rabbi who’s once committed adultery, once slipped with a congregant, once molested a child. Once and you’re out. You should go sell insurance. But Orthodox Judaism tends to be forgiving. Molest kids, get arrested for … Continue reading
Kissing Hands
About a decade ago, I saw a friend at Bnai David-Judea. I shook his hand and he immediately kissed the hand that I had just shaken. I was moved. Over the next few months, I saw some old Sephardi men … Continue reading
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Discouraged
Told a friend about a little something I did for somebody, and he responded, “You don’t seem like the type to do anything for anyone.” I was pained because I recognized the truth in his statement. I was down the … Continue reading
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