Monthly Archives: January 2008

What Has Happened To The Seventh-Day Adventist Church Since My Dad Left?

Here’s a pdf document of a 2005 report in Adventism Today. I grew up with the author — Arthur Patrick — and his family. His wife was my third grade teacher. When I first learned to read, I would borrow … Continue reading

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What’s Going On?

Chaim Amalek emails: It looks like you have taken someone’s advice to heart and have been reconfiguring your web site simply to generate monetizable traffic. True? The risk you are taking is that while this might work a bit in … Continue reading

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Hillary Dropping Out?

Matt Drudge reports: Facing a double-digit defeat in New Hampshire, a sudden collapse in national polls and an expected fund-raising drought, Senator Hillary Clinton is preparing for a tough decision: Does she get out of the race? And when?! "She … Continue reading

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Jewish views: Tales of two newspapers

Carlin Romano writes in the Philadelphia Daily News: Jewish newspapering remains alive and well. As 2008 begins, the Exponent, which hasn’t missed an issue since debuting in 1887, comes off its 120th anniversary year in the black, with a circulation … Continue reading

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It’s About Standards

Rabbi Yaakov Menken writes: I was as surprised as anyone to see “Gentile Lubavitcher refused conversion” in the Jerusalem Post. While it may be true that the belief that a deceased individual is the Messiah is foreign to normative Judaism, … Continue reading

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