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"This guy knows all the gossip, the ins and outs, the lashon hara of the Orthodox world. He’s an [expert] in... all the inner workings of the Orthodox world." (Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff)"This generation's Hillel." (Nathan Cofnas)
Daily Archives: May 6, 2007
Sociologist Steven M. Cohen Visits Los Angeles
Dr. Cohen says he comes from a non-observant Orthodox home (their Sabbath ended around noon). Though somewhat observant of Jewish law, he is no longer Orthodox. But he was the scholar in residence at a local Orthodox shul this past … Continue reading
Posted in Conservative Judaism, Judaism, Los Angeles, Orthodoxy, Reform Judaism, Sociology, Steven M. Cohen
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Rabbi Joseph Telushkin Needs A Blog
I was rereading You Shall Be Holy on Shabbos and found this on page 312: I know, for example, that on days when I am consumed by anger against someone, I rarely get worthwhile work done. Every time I begin … Continue reading
Posted in Marc Gafni, Telushkin
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Dreams
Vanessa writes: In my dream Luke Ford had been killed by some kind of orwellian secret state police because of his dissident intellectual work. It was a situation like in communist Russia, where dissidents often were made to disappear. I … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
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