Category Archives: Personal

It’s A Dirty Old Shame When All You Get From Love Is A Blog Post

From Wikipedia: “All You Get from Love Is a Love Song” is a song composed by Steve Eaton. It was popularized by the Carpenters in 1977. It was released to the public on May 2, 1977. Its B-side was “I … Continue reading

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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

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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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