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Daily Archives: April 13, 2008
Newsweek Ranks America’s Top 25 Pulpit Rabbis
From Newsweek.com: Based on the overwhelming response to the "influentials" list last year, Lynton, Ginsberg and Sanderson put together a list of the best pulpit rabbis in the country. The most powerful people, it turns out, are not always the … Continue reading
Posted in Rabbis
Tagged agudas achim, central synagogue new york, community leadership, congregation beth israel, congregation beth israel houston, David Wolpe, kavana, nai jeshurun, nashville tn, newsweek, nussbaum, oratory, orthodox congregation, overwhelming response, Rabbis, reform congregation, rubinstein, seattle wa, sinai temple los angeles, tifereth israel
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I’m Open For Passover Invites
I’m booked for the second seder but everything else is wide open. Lucky you.
Posted in Articles
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I Plan, Sherre Laughs
So a couple of weeks ago, the publicist for Rabbi Sherre Hirsch’s first book, We Plan, God Laughs, invited me to email in questions for the rabbi. I did. Five days later, the publicist emails me to say that the … Continue reading
Posted in Conservative Judaism, R. Sherre Hirsch
Tagged Conservative Judaism, conservative rabbi, counselor, desire, divine punishment, gentiles, hand experiences, interfaith work, jesus, laity, life after death, nbsp, news media, publicist, rabbi hirsch, shabbos, sherre, spiritual lesson, stringent standards, temple sinai
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Luke In London, Paris In Sept. 2005
Sept 19-26 was fashion week, this is Luke, a few hours off the plane on Sept 19 evening before a Versace premiere Luke in front of Tower Bridge, beside the Thames, Sep 20 Luke in front of the Tower of … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged champs elysees, clink, college oxford, eiffel tower, fashion week, hotel in london, islamic studies, jesse jane, john locke, knackered, london eye, london paris, luke luke, magdelen college, oxford centre, ritz carleton, tower bridge, tower of london, wapping, westminster abbey
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‘All The Sad Young Literary Men’
The New York Times writes about this new novel: Then there’s Sam, who wants to write “the great Zionist novel.” Talia, Sam’s Israeli girlfriend, tells him he doesn’t love the land enough to write the great Zionist novel. There are … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews
Tagged 300s, bad character, coward, enemies, excuse, girlfriend, girlfriends, girls, Google, Journey, literary men, mdash, nemeses, new novel, New York Times, rsquo, senses, shallowness, talia, young man
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