Daily Archives: September 15, 2009

I Want To Learn How To Tell My Story

I saw a flyer yesterday for a ten-week workshop for low-income men and women to tell their stories. These poor buggers would learn about writing it up and delivering it in public. I thought this could help me overcome my … Continue reading

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Jewish Week In Review

Steven I. Weiss reports:

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The Editorial Board At Jewschool

Jewschool.com apparently does not have bloggers. It has an "editorial board." Holy hell! Who came up with that term? Could it be the founder of Jewschool.com, the Orthodox Anarchist Dan Sieradski? Jewschool consistently gets about half the traffic of this … Continue reading

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Jewish Life Booms In Prison

Because more Jews – at least in New York – are behind bars! JTA reports: Maximum-security prisons in the United States have relatively few Jewish inmates, according to the Aleph Institute, a Chabad-affiliated organization that reaches out to Jews behind … Continue reading

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Is Judaism Right-Wing Or Left-Wing?

It is neither. Judaism was thousands of years old before the modern political terms of Right and Left developed any meaning. In the New York Times Sunday Book Review, Leon Wieseltier disects Norman Podhoretz’s new book, "Why Are Jews Liberal?" … Continue reading

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