Monthly Archives: February 2009

Thrashing Out Your Fantasies With Doreen Seidler-Feller

Here are my favorite sections of the Jewish Journal report on LimmudLA: …for three days and nights of Jews doing Jewish right. …But more than what you learn, LimmudLA is about with whom you learn: It offers a chance for … Continue reading

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San Francisco Intellectual Stephen Fowler Outrages America On ‘Wife Swap’

Here is the show on YouTube: Here is the Fox News report. Here’s a Stephen Fowler Sucks website. From the San Francisco Chronicle: Since the Jan. 30 episode in which the Noe Valley resident was filmed verbally demeaning Gayla Long, … Continue reading

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The New York Times Must’ve Been Right In Its Reporting About John McCain’s Entanglement With Hot Blonde Lobbyist Vicki Iseman

That’s the only way I can interpret the following story: NEW YORK Vicki Iseman, the Washington, D.C., lobbyist who had sued The New York Times for $27 million over an article last year that she claimed wrongly depicted her as … Continue reading

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Why Do People Fear Mussar?

Benyamin Eckstein posts to HirHurim: The big fear which prevents people from studying and applying Mussar is that they are deathly afraid of getting to know themselves. It is that which is too painful, not hearing about the dire consequences … Continue reading

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Bumping Into People At LimmudLA

David Suissa nails it: But as the sessions piled up and I had to make more tough choices and miss more great classes, a funny thing happened: I started getting interrupted. As I went from class to class, I kept … Continue reading

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