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Monthly Archives: March 2008
Creating A Relationship With God
Over Shabbat, I read a good book The Godfile: 10 Approaches to Personalizing Prayer by Aryeh Ben David. He writes on page nine: Many of us walk into a synagogue with the expectation that a spiritual experience will descend upon … Continue reading
Posted in Aryeh Ben David, Prayer
Tagged aryeh, distractions, expectation, prayer book, prayerbook, relationship with god, shabbat, spiritual connection, spiritual experience, spiritual feelings, Synagogue, Truth
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Sleaze, Equivalence, Bias
Jason Maoz writes for The Jewish Press: Sleaze, Equivalence, Bias (Pictured: Notorious 1982 New York Post headline. Twenty-six years later, the Post, with the exception of its pro-Israel editorial page, is still sleazy.) A few observations on media coverage of … Continue reading
Posted in The Jewish Press
Tagged bomb blast, call girl, clinton campaign, governor of new york, jewish press, Los Angeles Times, maoz, mercaz harav, moral equivalence, mystery woman, new york post, political coverage, private eye, public knowledge, recruiting station, requisite photo, skirmishes, sleaze, sound decision, worst terrorist attack
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The Orthodox Conversion To Judaism
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky writes: There is a sign hanging in my office that should be standard in the office of every rabbi, communal leader, worker for Klal Yisrael or activist of any sort. It reads: “For every action there is … Continue reading
Posted in Conversion
Tagged admonitions, chief rabbinate, communal leader, conversion to judaism, conversions, falsehood, inception, jewish community, jewish week, majority opinion, orthodox conversion, overwhelming majority, promulgation, proximate cause, rabbi, RCA, restrictive regulations, rsquo, untruth, yisrael
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What Women Want
Here are more of the interviews I did in August, September 1995. The first few are with this hilariously outspoken 24-year old named Stephanie. She was the best of the 50 or so women I interviewed. Her mom is Canadian-French … Continue reading
Posted in Dating
Tagged alexandra, ancestry, ashley, bad boys, baked beans, Beverly Hills, butt, dupre, Eliot Spitzer, emotional consequences, freeway, g string, guesthouse, hooker, Jerusalem, katie holmes, laundry, leather gloves, leather jackets, lindsay lohan, live cam chat, menage, missionary, nbsp, nice leather, Pornography, quot quot, roommate, stephanie, veins, vests
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