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Monthly Archives: September 2017
Empathy Vs Ego
I remember training in a field where one teacher (alone among all the teachers) was not particularly interested in teaching us. He was a superstar in the field, and he would show up late 95% of the time, and when … Continue reading
‘I can ‘do Jewish’ on just $40,000 a year’
A married father of four writes: We reviewed this short list of items and my advisor said, “You realize the greatest expense to your life is your religion. It is consuming over half of your post tax take home pay. … Continue reading
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Vanity Fair Editor Who Pretended To Be Jewish Steps Down
Why would anyone pretend to be Jewish? Because Jews dominate certain parts of American cultural life, such as publishing. Jews occupy the high ground. Someone who wants to make it has an incentive to pass as Jewish or even to … Continue reading
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Forward: ‘The Radical Class Divide In My Modern Orthodox High School’
Yehuda emails: Read the article, especially the following paragraph. “Even years later, it’s hard to tease out class as one factor in that tangle of clashing cultures and religious dogma, that whole psychosocial mess. But Modern Orthodoxy is a moneyed … Continue reading
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