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Monthly Archives: May 2008
I Fear I’m A Lousy Lover
I’m watching the movie American Gangster. The cop, played by Russell Crowe, is making love to his lawyer while carrying her around a kitchen (she’s facing him with her knees around his hips, you get the picture?). He puts her … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged american gangster, amp, beauties, cop, counter top, crashing to the floor, damsel, fuddy duddy, god and state, hips, hotel clerk, hovel, kitchens, knees, lawyer, lousy lover, love life, making love, nbsp, passion, russell crowe, terrible thing, vital component
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How Should Religious Zionism React To The Conversion Controversy?
Shahar Ilan writes in Haaretz: If anyone thought that religious Zionism should continue having anything to do with the Chief Rabbinate or the rabbinic courts, along came the ousting of Rabbi Haim Druckman from his position as head of the … Continue reading
Posted in Conversion
Tagged chief rabbinate, conversion controversy, conversion system, conversions, court of appeals, former soviet union, haaretz, israelis, mass conversion, national challenge, rabbi, rabbinical court, Rabbis, religious establishment, religious women, religious zionism, russian immigrants, sabbatical year, tough questions, zionists
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She Got Drunk With Luke Ford
Leah Kleim posts: Its Memorial day weekend. Since Friday afternoon across America road blocks have been going up, grills fired up and of course the American way of celebrating/vacationing has been put into play…Binge drinking ! Being an American I … Continue reading
Posted in Leah Kleim, Personal
Tagged binge drinking, booze, bull shit, chabadnik, double shot of tequila, drunken binge, friday afternoon, half a dozen, heineken, holiday weekend, irish blood, Leah Kleim, luke ford, memorial day weekend, moral leader, neosporin, road blocks, s chat room, six pack, wal mart
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A Portrait Of A Rabbi Predator
Think Rabbi Yaakov Menken aka Kenny the Shark. That type. We’ve got one or two rabbis like this in Pico/Robertson. They’re in positions of power. I wouldn’t want to rock the boat. I’m not the type who likes to name … Continue reading
Posted in Rabbis
Tagged best friend, Conversion, conversions, counseling, Divorce, family and friends, goyim, hashem, jewish growth, job, kenny the shark, Marriage, Orthodoxy, outreach, predator, rabbi yaakov menken, Rabbis, sake, vulnerable women
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Former Gambino family mobster Louis Ferrante tells Gelf about his transformation from hijacker to Orthodox Jew
Michael Gluckstadt writes: The ties between Jewish and Italian gangsters are legendary. From Bugsy Siegel and Lucky Luciano to Michael Corleone and Hyman Roth to Tony Soprano and Hesh Rabkin, there is a longstanding tradition of respect—or at least interaction—between … Continue reading
Posted in Orthodoxy
Tagged armed robbery, bugsy siegel, christian pop, credit card fraud, ferrante, gambino crime family, gambino family, gluckstadt, hyman roth, italian gangsters, longstanding tradition, lucky luciano, mdash, michael corleone, orthodox jew, orthodox judaism, rabkin, tony soprano, wiseguy, yiddish slang
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