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Daily Archives: March 23, 2008
Magic Carpet Out Of Business
It’s a kosher Yemenite restaurant on Pico Blvd. I had readers who gave me a combined $1200 tab there. I’ve eaten there about 50 times. I’ve had a ton of dates there. Sometimes they led to great things. My favorite … Continue reading
Posted in Kashrut, Pico/Robertson
Tagged baubles, bbc, discretionary spending, eight hours, favorite dish, going out of business, kosher restaurants, magic carpet, malibu, phone number, pico blvd, stomach, synagogues
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Rabbi Aryeh Ben David On God, Prayer And The Good Life
He wrote The Godfile: 10 Approaches to Personalizing Prayer (a book I read twice in a week instead of praying at shul). We did this interview via email: LF: What do you mean by this: "Everything that is true (vertically) … Continue reading
Posted in Aryeh Ben David, Prayer
Tagged adin, aryeh, close connection, empirical proof, lf, personal prayer, personality, physic, rabbi, rav, Relationships, rsquo, shabbat, siddur, something concrete, spiritual relationship, Spirituality, wit
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A Christlike Approach To Jewish Law
Donny emails: Hi Luke! I am an Orthodox convert. I was never involved with Jesus and Christianity. It’s only after converting that I started appreciating what he had to say to the Jews of his time. Based on what I … Continue reading
Posted in Los Angeles, Orthodoxy
Tagged basra, Christianity, herod, introspection, jesus, jewish law, jewish los angeles, Jews, lack of education, messiah, messianic, nbsp, orthodox shuls, personal prayer, prayer 2000, quot, rabbi nachman, sacrificial meat, shul, third person, trinity, vertical column
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Need A Doctor?
From LaGriffedulion: Medical school admission is uncommonly competitive, there being many more applicants than slots. The competition is so intense that if black applicants were held to the same admission standards as whites and Asians, we would turn out almost … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Race
Tagged academic credentials, admission standards, affirmative action, american medicine, american physicians, beth dawson, black physicians, board of medical examiners, gap, law school graduates, law students, medical competence, medical school admission, medical student, medical students, national board of medical examiners, nbme, performance gap, physician students, several ways
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