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From The Onion: "Websites like Match.com allow sad, lonely women all over the country to invite pain and rejection into their lives with just a few clicks of the mouse." It’s a good companion video to the Atlantic’s essay on … Continue reading →

The friends and family of Dr. Bruce Nadler say the writing was on the wall. He used to be a big doctor. He started spiraling downhill. He lost his medical license. He closed his practice. His wife Terri never indicated … Continue reading →

Christopher Hitchens writes: In December 1931, George Orwell got himself arrested in the slums of East London in order to find out about conditions "inside," and then he wrote an essay about the people he met while in detention. One … Continue reading →

From the LA Times Saturday: Jews from across Southern California will converge on a Costa Mesa hotel Feb. 15-18 for a non-denominational, eclectic conference on Jewish life and learning, organizers say. About 600 Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist, Orthodox and secular Jews … Continue reading →

People can distinguish me from a distance because of my gait. I roll my shoulders fighting for decent posture and swagger. As professor William F. S. Miles writes in his book Zion in the Desert: American Jews in Israel’s Reform … Continue reading →