Monthly Archives: September 2010

NYT: ‘Suicide Follows Hurtful Posting On Web’

The NYT says: “Tyler Clementi committed suicide after after Dharun Ravi, center, and Molly Wei, right, allegedly planted a camera in his room and videotaped an intimate encounter.” I do not blame Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei for Tyler’s death. … Continue reading

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The Blame Game

From DennisPrager.com: Is GW Responsible for the Big Debt? Wednesday, September 29, 2010 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 2:24 PM Dennis talks to Steve Moore of the Wall Street Journal. Is GW responsible for Obama’s debt? Some of it, … Continue reading

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Raping Peace Activists

This Haaretz story is getting a lot of play in the blogosphere. Is the raping of a peace activist by the Palestinian man they’re protecting just desserts? Extremely impolite? Or who are we to judge? That’s his culture. It seems … Continue reading

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Outreach For Orthodox Judaism

According to Wikipedia: Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim (1896 – 1981) (Hebrew: יצחק נסים‎) was a former Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel. Rabbi Nissim was born in Baghdad and immigrated to Palestine in 1925. In 1964, Pope Paul VI visited Israel but … Continue reading

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Does heresy rule out achievement and contribution?

Greg Leake emails about our latest Torah talk: Hi Luke and Rabbs, When the Sikhs are wearing their ceremonial garb in your neighborhood and they are walking around near you guys in your Orthodox garb, it must look like a … Continue reading

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