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Category Archives: Articles
What You Have To Believe To Be A Republican Today
Dennis Prager responds: 1. "Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush’s daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney did business with him and a bad guy when Bush needed a … Continue reading
What Percentage Of Orthodox Jews Take Their Cases To Secular Courts Rather Than Religious Courts?
A Jew is supposed to resolve his issues within the community and not look to the goyim and their legal system for redress. I say, can’t we all get along? If you’ve got a problem with somebody, don’t sue him … Continue reading
Welcome To America!
Lewis Fein’s brother Barry blogs: I remember it like it was yesterday, coming to America via Ellis Island. I had my ticket pinned to my sport coat. We were in search of a better life. A life where my brother … Continue reading
I Love Brad Greenberg
Whenever I worry about letting someone in my life, I just send them to Brad A. Greenberg’s profile of me in the Aug. 3, 2007 Jewish Journal. It is very economical. Most women are scared away. The rest I visit … Continue reading
Give Me The Pudding And No One Gets Hurt
Lewis Fein’s brother Barry has a blog: barryrides.blogspot.com. There’s a poignant photo of young Lewis with his brother. "I think my brother was showing me love in the same way Lennie would show a rabbit love." Barry writes last May: … Continue reading
‘Married Life’
I caught this comedy of manners at Sony tonight. Tagline: Do you know what really goes on in the mind of the person with whom you sleep? Plot: A 1940s-set drama where an adulterous man plots his wife’s death instead … Continue reading
Hillary’s Last Best Hope
New Entry for the 2008 Dictionary: Electile Dysfunction: the inability to become aroused over any of the choices for president put forth by either party in the 2008 election year. The last best hope for the Clintons is to hone … Continue reading
The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them) by Peter Sagal
Publishers Weekly says: "NPR host Sagal (Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me) offers a hilarious, harmlessly prurient look at the banality of regular people’s strange and wicked pleasures. In the wake of the late-1990s obsession with other people’s fun, notes Sagal, … Continue reading
Kashrut Alert
Dear friends, I am extending my moral leadership to questions of kashrut. As you may remember, a question arose a couple of months ago concerning the status of the non-glatt kosher meats being produced by the Rubashkin company. (These are … Continue reading
Your Moral Leader Gets In Shape For The Super Bowl
I’ve put aside the sacred texts to produce this Jane Fonda-style workout video to the theme of Rocky. Chaim Amalek writes: If you were more entrepreneurial, you would be rich! Think: baseball trading cards but with rabbis instead of sportsmen. … Continue reading