Category Archives: Personal

Conversations With Friends

* It’s uncanny how accurately and quickly my female therapists have been able to read my mood. I’ll walk in the door and sit down and bam, they can just tell how I am. There’s something comforting and reassuring when … Continue reading

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Do I Fear Repercussions?

In the wake of my posts on the Rabbinical Council of California (RCC), many people, Jews and non-Jews, have asked me if I fear repercussions. The answer is no. I was reporting on a lawsuit that is in the community’s … Continue reading

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Who goes shopping for a big screen on Thanksgiving?

People who don’t give a fig about America. By the look of the KABC TV cameras outside Best Buy tonight, these Thanksgiving shoppers do not appear to be descendants of the Pilgrims on the Mayflower. I’d rather be alone, 90% … Continue reading

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The Attack (2012 Movie)

Good movie, except the plot twist about a Christian Palestinian suicide bomber, of which there have been none. Only Muslim Palestinians blow themselves up. The movie says that people just snap, that’s why they blow themselves up, but why do … Continue reading

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The Day I Learned How To Make The Pain Go Away

It was a Sabbath afternoon. God, how I hated the Sabbath. We were Seventh-Day Adventists at Avondale College in Cooranbong (comes from the Aboriginal word “Kour-an-bong”, meaning “rocky bottom creek”) and you weren’t allowed to do anything fun on the … Continue reading

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