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Why Does Peyman Pourfakhr Want To Change His Name?
I don’t get it. Be who you are. Case Type: Civil Petition – Change of Name (General Jurisdiction) Case#: BS114019 CASE NAME: IN THE MATTER OF PEYMAN POURFAKHR Parties: POURFAKHR PEYMAN – Petitioner in Pro Per Attorneys: Date Filed: 03/28/2008 … Continue reading
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I’m Still Accepting Passover Invites
My dance card is not yet full. I’m set up for the second seder. Everything else is wide open!
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“From Lodging to Lodging” and “The Tale of the Scribe”
Bnai David-Judea hosts a book club discussion with the Conservative temple Ikar Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in the Beit Midrash. The two stories in my headline are found in S.Y. Agnon’s A Book That Was Lost And Other Stories. You … Continue reading
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How Important Is A Relationship With God?
Having a "relationship with God" makes no sense to me. It feels like something Christians talk about. I had an overdose of that God relationship talk when I was an evangelical Christian. I became Jewish to be hyper-rational and pick … Continue reading
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Tagged christians, david s new, hashem, moral values, Prayer, rabbi, relationship with god, second time, shabbat, suffering, there is a god, viktor frankl, wrong way
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High On Mount Sinai?
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The biblical Israelites may have been high on a hallucinogenic plant when Moses brought the Ten Writing in the British journal Time and Mind, Benny Shanon of Jerusalem’s Hebrew University said two plants in the Sinai desert … Continue reading
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Australia’s Prime Minister Salutes Chabad
And my slideshow tributes to Air Supply, Jennifer Garner, Galilea Montijo, Britney Spears, Jessica Alba…
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Strippercize
As I make my rounds of Jewish singles events, I run into a lot of women who used to be hot. Many of them toyed with me and then dumped me. Now they’re not so hot and not so married. … Continue reading
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Fixing Surgically The Eyes Of Down Syndrome Girls To Marry Them Off
Have you ever heard about this? I hear it’s done in Los Angeles. They can even marry them off with large dowries.
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