Monthly Archives: June 2009

She’s Looking For A Nice Jewish Boy

myannamills:  what are you doing with yourself these days. You are retired arent you?  Luzdedos1:  lukeford.net  Luzdedos1:  jewish stuff  myannamills:  haha i love jewish guys  myannamills:  they are my weakness haha  myannamills:  I"m a shikse  myannamills:  haha  myannamills:  I’ve been … Continue reading

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How Did A Pot-Smoking Anarchist Become The Guardian Of The Conventional Morality?

JTA’s head of digital media, Daniel Sierardski, writes: One phenomenon that appears to be accelerating the decline of at least some Jewish news organizations is the rise of a group of Jewish news aggregation Web sites, predominantly serving the ultra-Orthodox … Continue reading

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Contemporary American Judaism: Transformation and Renewal by Reform Rabbi Dana Evan Kaplan

We talk by phone Tuesday, June 2. (Previous interviews with Rabbi Kaplan here.) Luke: "You have a note in the beginning that some of your language in this book is a bit sharp." Dana: "I’m trying to make certain points. … Continue reading

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Can The Homosexual Be Cured?

Rabbi Gil Student writes: When I mentioned in an earlier post (link) that I had received a copy of Light In The Closet: Torah, Homosexuality and the Power to Change by Arthur Goldberg, there was an almost immediate negative reaction … Continue reading

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ATID Weed

I was having a gentle morning conversation when suddenly the woman said, "How old is the world?" Wow. "About five billion years," I said. "I think that’s the scientific consensus." "But what about the Torah?" "I don’t take the first … Continue reading

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