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Monthly Archives: June 2009
Risking It All For Love
Katie Roiphe writes in the New York Times about a challenging new book on love: Nehring sees in the grandeur of feeling a kind of heroism, even if the relationship doesn’t take conventional form or endure in the conventional way. … Continue reading
Posted in Love
Tagged healthy relationships, katie roiphe, long distance relationships, nehring, precious years, psychological damage
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Someone is Wrong on the Internet
I must set them straight pronto! I love this piece in the New York Times: One of the more trenchant cartoons of the Internet era features a stick-figure man typing furiously at his keyboard. From somewhere beyond the panel floats … Continue reading
Posted in Internet
Tagged bob costas, buzz bissinger, friday night lights, lee siegel, rabbit holes, scriveners
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Surprised By Joy
Something happened to me this evening that hasn’t hit me in months — I wanted to go to shul. Around 7pm, my feet got itchy and I put on my suit and I walked half an hour and I said … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged fellow jew, half an hour, hasn, parsha, torah portion
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Intellectuals Go Nuts Over Rav Soloveitchik
But the ordinary Jew has not been affected by the Rav. Those who get drunk on the Rav’s theories are intellectuals who love theories. Yes, the Rav ordained more rabbis than anybody in history. But the Rav did not make … Continue reading
Posted in Marc B. Shapiro, Orthodoxy
Tagged chatam sofer, Marc B. Shapiro, orthodox rabbi, shulchan aruch, soloveitchik, torah in motion
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