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Daily Archives: February 4, 2009
Maybe The Rabbis Don’t Deserve My Rage?
So I’m sitting in class and I’m thinking, why am I here? I already know all this. I attained enlightenment years ago. I’m way ahead of these people. I could teach this class. I sit there in mounting frustration for … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Rabbis
Tagged Alexander Technique, counting cards, flesh and blood, harvard medical school, luke ford, new friend, orthodox judaism, protagonist, Rabbis
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Yoga By Candlelight
It was on my 18th spine-roll that I made the rude noise. It reverberated around the yoga studio like the sounding of the gong. I try so hard yet spiritual enlightenment and smooth digestion still escape me. My afternoon began … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Yoga
Tagged candlelight, gong, spine roll, spiritual enlightenment, stuffed animals, yoga studio
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Candye Kane Converts To Judaism
I was acquainted with Candye Kane and her body of work in my previous life. I saw her play the piano with her breasts at the World Pornography Conference in 1998. She was one tough act to follow. She too … Continue reading
Posted in Pornography, Prostitution, Reform Judaism
Tagged candye kane, lord was a woman, mormon family, san diego union tribune, tikkun olam, world pornography conference
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Naomi Ragen Responds To Michal Tal
Over the past year, I’ve published charges of plagiarism (by authors Sarah Shapiro and Michal Tal) against Israeli novelist Naomi Ragen. Naomi Ragen (I’ve enjoyed all her books, but didn’t have the strength to approach her at the American Jewish … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Michal Tal, Naomi Ragen
Tagged cassandra king, israeli novelist, luke ford, Naomi Ragen, sandra conroy, sarah shapiro, vanity press
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I’m Not Selfish, I Just Love Literature
I like this remark by V.S. Naipaul: "It’s the thing about the work. If you are travelling for material or to write a book, it isn’t that you are self-centered, it is that you are with the work. You are … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Personal
Tagged african students, ayatollah khomeini, diagnosis, evelyn waugh, excuse, fatwa against salman rushdie, literary criticism, paragraph, salman rushdie, V S Naipaul
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