Every Major American Jewish Organization Including The Orthodox Union And Agudath Israel Supports Immigration Amnesty

Posted on October 5, 2014 by Luke Ford

Over the past year, Israel has cracked down on illegal African immigrants. They’re called infiltrators in Israel and they’re getting caught and imprisoned and then repatriated to Africa.

I did a search of the Orthodox Union and Agudath Yisrael and I could find no condemnation of Israel for this.

I am glad they don’t condemn Israel for this. I applaud Israel for this. I just want the United States to behave the same way towards the people who infiltrate it.

Every major Jewish political organization supports immigration amnesty for illegal aliens, including the Republican Jewish Coalition. These groups push immigration policies that will destroy my country. They have allied to hurt America no less than true-believing communists allied to support the dominion of the Soviet Union.

Here is the position of Agudath Israel: “Finally, in the area of immigration, Agudath Israel urges that American borders continue to be open to Jewish and other refugees who seek to come to the United States after escaping from oppressive political environments. The United States is a nation of immigrants and has long been distinguished by its generosity toward refugees from all across the globe. It is essential that such generosity continue to be maintained in today’s era of international volatility. Agudath Israel accordingly opposes any efforts to impose caps or quotas on refugees seeking safe haven in the United States. Agudath Israel further supports the provision of welfare benefits to needy non-citizen immigrants.”

I suspect most American Jews loathe the idea of giving amnesty to people who came here illegally.

When it comes to immigrating into the Jewish people, aka conversion to Judaism, the Orthodox Union and Agudath Yisrael support the strictest standards so that only the finest and most disciplined and most dedicated people can join. But when it comes to the United States, all major Jewish political organizations want to give amnesty to those who infiltrated the country illegally.

Chaim Amalek says: “Your next step is to contact each of these Jewish orgianizations and ask them what they are doing to increase Israeli acceptance of African refugees from violence, poverty, and social injustice.”

Report: These Jewish organizations all demanded amnesty for undocumented immigrants in the United States, invoking the language of the Torah about our obligation to do kindness to the stranger in our midst. They have largely remained silent, however, in the face of Israel’s rounding up and forcible deportation of African asylum seekers. They should all be held to account for their hypocrisy – especially because the Torah was referring to how we treat non-Jews in Israel, not the United States.

National Organizations
American Forum of Russian Jewry (AFRJ)
American Jewish Committee
Anti‐Defamation League
Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice
B’nai B’rith International
Bukharian Jewish Congress of the USA and Canada
HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society)
Jewish Council on Public Affairs
Jewish Federations of North America
Keshet
National Council of Jewish Women
Orthodox Union
Rabbinical Assembly
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
Tikkun Olam Commission of the Jewish Reconstructionist Movement
T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
Union for Reform Judaism
Uri L’Tzedek
Women of Reform Judaism

Local Organizations
AJC Cincinnati
AJC Cleveland
AJC Houston
AJC Los Angeles
AJC New York
AJC Philadelphia/Southern New Jersey
Anti‐Defamation League of Eastern PA and Southern NJ
Congregation Meor Hachaim of Luna Park (New York, NY)
FEGS Health & Human Services (New York, NY)
Greater Philadelphia Jewish Coalition on Immigration
HIAS Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
Indianapolis Jewish Community Relations Council
Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action (Boston, MA)
Jewish Community Action (St. Paul, MN)
Jewish Community Center at Starrett City (New York, NY)
Jewish Community Relations Council of Philadelphia
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs (Chicago, IL)
Jewish Family & Career Services (Atlanta, GA)
Jewish Family & Children’s Service (Pittsburgh, PA)
Jewish Family & Children’s Services of the East Bay (Berkeley, CA)
Jewish Family Service of Buffalo & Erie County New York
Jewish Family Service of Western Massachusetts, Inc.
Jewish Family Services (Ann Arbor, MI)
Jewish Labor Committee Western Region (Los Angeles, CA)
Jewish Social Policy Action Network (Philadelphia, PA)
Jewish Vocational Service of MetroWest (East Orange, NJ)
Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (New York, NY)
Massachusetts Board of Rabbis (Newton, MA)
National Council of Jewish Women ‐ Greater Philadelphia
National Council of Jewish Women Texas State Policy Advocates
UJA‐Federation of New York
Women of Vision (Philadelphia, PA)

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Child Abuse In Orthodox Australia

Posted on October 5, 2014 by Luke Ford

Regular Jews and not rabbis have led the fight against child abuse.

May 2, 2014 news report from Melbourne:

A man who claims to have been sexually assaulted as a boy by two members of Melbourne’s orthodox Jewish community is suing the St Kilda East Yeshivah Centre for negligence.
Lawyers for Manny Waks have filed a Supreme Court writ against two men he claims sexually abused him and another 11 defendants, including the Yeshivah Centre, for negligently failing to properly supervise and control the alleged offenders.
Associate Justice Robyn Lansdowne agreed on Friday to extend the time to serve the writ on the 13 defendants.
In the writ, lawyer Dr Vivian Waller outlined how Mr Waks alleged he was sexually abused by two offenders, including David Cyprys, at various locations including the Yeshivah Centre.
Another 11 defendants – separate from the two alleged abusers – are claimed to have been negligent in the operation and management of the Yeshivah Centre and/or negligent in the supervision and control of the alleged offenders.
Similar accusations of inaction were levelled at the centre in court hearings for former Yeshivah College teacher David Kramer, who was jailed in July last year for molesting four boys between 1989 and 1992.
Cyprys, who raped a 15-year-old boy five times in 1991 and sexually abused eight other boys over an eight-year period, was jailed in December last year for eight years after he was found guilty by a County Court jury of five counts of rape.
He then pleaded guilty to 12 more charges, including five counts of indecent assault and four of procuring an act of gross indecency.
The offences took place while Cyprys was a leader of young people at the Yeshivah Centre. He later worked at the centre and its school as a security guard.
Mr Waks, 38, the founder of the victims’ advocate group Tzedek, was granted permission last year by a County Court judge to be publicly identified as one of Cyprys’ victims.

Benny Forer, deputy District Attorney in Los Angeles, posts to FB:

On the day before Yom Kippur, Rebbetzin Feldman of Sydney Australia sent a grotesque message to Manny Waks telling him, amongst other things to “get over it (the abuse he suffered)” and that he’s a scumbag. Not only do I totally disagree with her incredibly insensitive and stupid statement, I find that too often it reflects the abject failures of leadership with the community. I doubt anyone will speak up, due to ignorance, insensitivity, stupidity, apathy or any number of moral failures that affect the community at large. I only wonder whether she (and her ilk) said anything remotely similar to someone the abused children (I highly doubt it). Recently, a member of HER community, Gug Hayman, was convicted of abusing multiple children. She hasn’t uttered a word about him. Sadly, in her little world of insanity, it’s Manny’s fault.
To those that blame or fault Manny for his actions, I beg of you to read his response to her. It only illustrates his true motives and intent and his maturity regarding these issues.
I hope Rebbetzin Feldman atones for her errors and may Gd have mercy on her wretched soul.

MANNY WAKS POSTS:

Below is my email response to Rebbetzin Feldman, which I just sent her.

Dear Rebbetzin Pnina Feldman,

Last night I didn’t attend synagogue for Kol Nidrei. Instead, I reflected on your email, on the callousness of your words. You may not be aware that, sadly, a synagogue is one of the most uncomfortable places for me to be in. This may have something to do with the fact that I was sexually abused inside a synagogue – inside the Melbourne Yeshivah synagogue.

It seems clear that you have no insight into the long-term and often profound impact of child sexual abuse. Perhaps my Victim Impact Statement, which I read out in court on 16 December 2013, will shed some light: http://www.tzedek.org.au/victims-testimonies.html#Manny%20Waks
Perhaps the Victim Impact Statement of another Melbourne Yeshivah victim, which I read out in court on their behalf, will be of value: http://www.tzedek.org.au/victims-testimonies.html#Victim%20Impact%20Statement:%20David%20Kramer%20case
And tragically there are many others available as well.

Let me be clear, I do not seek sympathy. I seek understanding. I seek compassion. I seek justice. For myself, and for the many other victims of child sexual abuse, many of whom endured unspeakable pain – both during the abuse itself and subsequently.

Even if we take the most conservative estimate of the number of victims of child sexual abuse within the broader community – around 1 in 10 children are sexually abused before they turn 18 (some estimate it at around 1 in 5) – it is clear that the scourge of child sexual abuse is endemic. Nothing suggests that it is any different within the Jewish community. In fact, I would argue that there is now sufficient anecdotal evidence to suggest that the rates would be even higher within our community.

Regardless, it would seem reasonable to assume that you would know victims of abuse, perhaps even a friend or a relative. In all likelihood you would not be aware of this as they would probably not feel comfortable disclosing their abuse to someone with the views that you hold. If anyone has indeed disclosed their abuse to you, I shudder to think the ramifications of that conversation.

I deliberately chose to send this email to you now – the exact time that you would be sitting in synagogue for what is one of the most important prayers, Neilah. As you would know, it is the closing prayer on this most sacred day in the Jewish calendar. It is when you are expected to ask God to accept your repentance, and ask to be sealed in the Book of Life. I sincerely hope that you have indeed repented for the damage that you have caused, not least to our community. And of course I hope that God, if indeed He exists, grants you a long life.

Notwithstanding the damage you have caused, I would also like to express my appreciation for providing me with the opportunity to continue to raise awareness of the issue of child sexual abuse. Thankfully the decades of silence have been replaced by the desire to learn and improve, and to correct past wrongs – at least for most within our community. While significant progress has been made, your email – and the views and actions of some of your colleagues – highlights just how far we still have to go. So thank you.

As a matter of courtesy, below is the public statement I issued yesterday in response to your email.

Wishing you well, especially in your capacity to say and do the right things in the future.

Manny Waks

“I’m truly shocked and horrified that Rebbetzin Feldman has deliberately chosen the eve of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement and the most sacred day in the Jewish calendar, to launch an unprovoked, vile and offensive tirade against me.

Although I have become accustomed to these types of attacks from some within the Chabad community – including their leadership – since going public with the abuse I suffered as a member of the Yeshivah community, and the subsequent cover up by those still in charge of the school, Rebbetzin Feldman’s email is unprecedented in its viciousness and intimidation. As such, I have referred the matter to police for their possible action. I will not be intimidated by the misguided Rebbetzin, and will continue my important work on behalf of many victims – including those within both the Melbourne and Sydney Chabad Yeshiva(h) institutions – for the sake of justice and to minimise the risks to our children into the future.

I also note that Rebbetzin Feldman has made very serious allegations in connection with a very well-known, highly-reputable Sydney Jewish day school and I have asked the police to investigate. If the Rebbetzin is privy to information which she is withholding regarding alleged child sexual abuse then she must provide it to the police without delay.

Through her email, Rebbetzin Feldman has made it clear that she is not fit to hold any leadership positions within the Jewish community, or in the broader community for that matter.”

REBBETZIN’S EMAIL:

Hi Manny,
Why do you keep highlighting Yeshiva?! Before the pedophile issues you went running to The Age re BER issues. There’s always something with you and Yeshiva. Get over it already- whatever it is that makes you think that attacking Yeshiva justifies your not being frum. There is something very ugly and personal about your antiYeshiva campaign. Just because a security guard molested you don’t blame Yeshiva! A principal in [A PROMINENT JEWISH SCHOOL – REDACTED FOR LEGAL REASONS] College ( not Jewish) once molested nearly half the girls in the school! NONE of whom have ever blamed the school! Get over it! You need counselling! I haven’t met a person yet with one nice word to say about you. Most people consider you a lowlife- not because of any molestation,which wasn’t your fault, but because of your malicious blame game which is unjust, unwarranted, undeserved and wicked. The person you hurt most by that is yourself and your own psyche and spiritual and emotional wellbeing. I realise you may go on hate campaign against me now, but like yourself, I have no fear in saying it as it is when I feel passionate about something.
Erev Yom Kippur. Get the pedophiles. That’s fine. But get the hate out of your heart or at least try to control it. That hate is very bad for you personally as it doesn’t allow you peace of mind or any form of internal harmony or happiness.
Words from the heart.
A Gmar Tov to you and yours,
Rebzn Pnina Feldman

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A Spy Among You

Posted on October 5, 2014 by Luke Ford

When I wrote the porn industry, many pornographers were convinced that I was a spy for their enemies — law enforcement.

When I joined Judaism, a couple of Orthodox Jews said I was a spy for the goyim.

I think I engender this reaction because I am weird, cold, hard, and cynical. I have a stand-offish personality, a result of my genes and my upbringing in foster care. I am always happiest when I join the dance but it is easiest for to stand apart. I have a stronger drive for distinction than for love and when I look at the world, I seek for mis-matching rather than for matching. This does not make for a happy life but I have a mind that is always asking what’s wrong with this situation, what’s incongruous here, what is this person not telling me, what is he holding back, how is he dangerous? If I hear dissonance, my mind goes into overdrive until I figure out the notes.

* I have this personality quirk where I love to ask non-Jews how was your Yom Kippur etc and pretend in conversation with them that the whole world is Jewish. Is this a wider Jewish trait/joke or is it me? I did not do this when I was a Christian.

Chaim Amalek posts: Similarly, it is great fun to wish a Hassid “Merry Christmas” when Nittel Nacht approaches.

Nittel Nacht is the best holiday on the Jewish calendar. You get to play cards, use electronics, and you don’t have to study gemarah then and pretend that you are studying the words of God as given to Moses on Mount Sinai.

But WHY ARE THERE NO NITTEL NACHT CARDS to buy? Luke, anyone, this could be a real business opportunity for you.

Daniel: “I like asking Egyptians how their Passover Seders went.”

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‘What do you think Luke of Israelis who emigrate to places like L.A. or in some cases, Berlin?’

Posted on October 5, 2014 by Luke Ford

From the perspective of Torah, Jews are not supposed to move from Israel. It is a descent from a more holy place to a less holy place. So, yes, I think it’s sad when Israelis move from Israel to places where life is easier. On the other hand, people do what they want to do, or do what they need to do, so who are we to judge blah blah?

Chaim: “Israel is now quite densely packed with Jews and Arabs (I am not referring to the so-called West Bank), and it really does not have room enough for all the world’s Jews or even, perhaps, all the world’s Israelis. Unless, of course, its borders are expanded as indicated on the above maps and ethnically cleansed of the arabs. Which will never ever happen.”

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Are Jews Honest In Business?

Posted on October 4, 2014 by Luke Ford

WASPs are the most honest people I’ve met, closely followed by Mormons, Germans (including German Jews), Japanese and Koreans. Chinese in China strike me as duplicitous in business. Catholics seem to be all over the place. In my life experience, latinos have been more honest than blacks.

Dealing with tribes has been more tricky for me than dealing with whites.

Jewish honesty in business seems to fall according to historic lines. Jews from Western Europe and Germany (which tended to have comparatively efficient and honest governments) seem to me to be more honest in business than those from Eastern Europe, where cheating a nasty regime was a way of life for centuries. According to the people I know, Israelis and other Middle Easterners don’t have a reputation for honesty.

Every group but those who spring from Northern Europe tend to have strong kinship ties. By contrast, whites evolved in a place where reputation was more important than familial ties. People with strong in-group identities, be they black or Jewish or Chinese or latino or Armenian, will regard outsiders, in general, differently from those in the tribe. Tribes are extensions of families and you are allowed to do whatever it takes to provide for your family.

When my Persian therapist asked me how close I was with my family, I said, “About average for white people.”

The stronger your in-group identity, the less you’ll be concerned with the welfare of outsiders.

Many parts of the Torah extol honesty in business but people don’t live solely by religious text. They also operate according to their genes and according to other norms (usually those they learned from their families). In my experience, Reform, Conservative and Modern Orthodox rabbis spend more time preaching honesty in business than do traditional Orthodox rabbis who have stronger in-group identities than their more assimilated peers.

Modern Orthodox Jews tend to be in professions (such as doctor, dentist, accountant, lawyer, etc) that have ethics code and they thus have to live by them to survive. In most businesses, there’s no similar ethics code.

Jewish behavior in business and in most things becomes explicable once you start factoring in strong in-group identity (which waxes and wanes), high intelligence (particularly verbal), a history of persecution, familial traditions and strong kinship ties, ethnic solidarity, a penchant for verbal violence instead of physical violence, a religion that focuses on behavior rather than belief and on getting the most out of this life rather than worrying about the next, and the high value that Jews put on social and economic success.

Because Judaism is a religion of law, Jews are more free to tell you how they feel (Protestantism is a religion of faith and so there’s more incentive to keep quiet about impolite parts of yourself) and they will shock more circumspect non-Jews. Jews tend to talk more frankly about the natural passions for money, sex, fame, etc, and so this can appall more discrete groups and cause them to think that Jews are animals (while Jews will view WASPs as uptight and fake). These cultural and personality differences between Jews and non-Jews can cause Jews to be perceived as outside the pale when in fact their behavior, including in business, is the same or better than non-Jews.

Have you heard of the phrase “Jewish lightning?” According to Wikipedia, it is offensive. “Supposed cause of a fire which is in fact deliberately lit by the property owner in order to benefit from insurance or similar such as destruction of documents.”

I don’t know if Jews committed such insurance fraud at a higher rate than did non-Jews with similar IQs but I think people expect more from Jews, are more interested in the behavior of Jews than in the behavior of low-class people, and are quicker to resent Jews (as Jews tend to be around the top of the socio-economic spectrum).

Does Jewish behavior affect how non-Jews view them? Common sense suggests to me yes.

I wonder if those Jews who want to participate in the wider culture tend to behave better in business than those who want to stick to their own kind and only deal with goyim out of necessity?

From FailedMessiah:

Why did Jews get expelled from England and parts of France? Simple antisemitism?

No.

At least not according to the Maharam mi-Rothenburg (c. 1215 – 2 May 1293), the leading rabbi of Germany and the general area surrounding it at the time of the expulsion from England and an earlier expulsion from part of France who was asked what the halakha is for Jews who are forced to swear on a Sefer Torah that they would not “clip money” (i.e., shave bits pieces of silver off coins to lighten their weight while collecting the silver bits and melting them down into ingots, or for use as jewelry, or even as counterfeit coins).

The men swore the oath on the Sefer Torah, but they had in mind that the oath they swore should not really be valid.

The Maharam mi-Rothenburg answered (Siman 246 in the Lemberg 1860 edition, page 20-21) that without question the oath is valid, and it is a terrible sin to steal from Gentiles.

But the Maharam mi-Rothenburg added something else.

He says that clipping money caused the expulsion (the “actual word he uses is destruction”) of the Jews from France and England.

The most relevant excerpt: “וכמה דמים נשפכו על ידי אלה וכאלה פוסלי מטבעות היינו דאחרבינהו לאחינו יושבי צרפת והאי,” “How much blood was spilled on account of these clippers of coins, causing the destruction of our fellow Jews who lived in France and the Island [England!]”

To be sure, the Maharam mi-Rotenburg is also cognizant of antisemitism among the Gentile poulation and does not at all consider them to be blameless. Far from it. But he isn’t blind to the misdeeds of his own people who helped provoke the expulsion.

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As Israel is the Jewish state, are shuls rational targets for those who don’t like Israel?

Posted on October 4, 2014 by Luke Ford

I find this challenging: “In 2004 the Board of Deputies of British Jews criticized [Gilad] Atzmon for saying, “I’m not going to say whether it is right or not to burn down a synagogue, I can see that it is a rational act.” Atzmon responded in a letter to The Observer that “since Israel presents itself as the ‘state of the Jewish people’ … any form of anti-Jewish activity may be seen as political retaliation. This does not make it right.”

Almost every synagogue has a security guard out front, and during Jewish holidays such as Yom Kippur, there’s usually an increase in security.

I’ve never been to a church where there were security guards out front and metal detectors to pass through.

Whenever Israel is in conflict, I notice an increase in security at shuls. Surely this increase in security is a rational act because when Israel is at war, Jews and shuls are more likely to get attacked.

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The Case For Greater Israel

Posted on October 4, 2014 by Luke Ford

God promised Abraham all the land between the Nile and the Euphrates. Sounds like greater Israel to me. I expect we’d run this territory more effectively than anyone else. Now if we could only push out the non-Jews here who are mucking things up with their low IQs and barbaric Islam.

Genesis 15:18: “So the LORD made a covenant with Abram that day and said, “I have given this land to your descendants, all the way from the border of Egypt to the great Euphrates River.”

Frequently, there are real competing interests between Jews and other groups (that sometimes sound irrational or take extreme turns).

As a friend notes, “All groups of intelligent humans know that they are in mortal competition with all other groups.”

The lowest IQ groups know this as well.

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America, Australia & The Jews

Posted on October 4, 2014 by Luke Ford

I’ve been talking to Hasidic Jews who’ve lived in Australia. One told me that he could never walk home from shul on a Friday night in Sydney’s posh East side without having some white Australian hurling curses at him. It’s also common for Orthodox Jews in their Orthodox outfits in Sydney and Melbourne to get beat up by white Australians. These Jews tell me they feel much safer in Los Angeles and America generally. That they never (or rarely) encounter anti-Semitism here. Nobody hurls curses at them as they walk home from shul.

Australia has one dominant culture for 90% of the country (the white 90%) and if you exclude yourself from that culture by dressing and acting differently, it is not appreciated. Growing up as a Seventh-Day Adventist in Australia, I remember we were not popular because we deliberately excluded ourselves from the dominant culture. There’s a good scene in the movie A Cry in the Dark about the contempt average Aussies feel for Adventists.

The United States does not have one dominant culture. It has Jewish culture (which breaks up into Hasidic culture and regular Orthodox culture and Conservative and Reform culture, and secular Jewish culture), black culture, hispanic culture, asian culture, white culture, Catholic culture, etc. America is much more accepting of difference and it honors Jews more than Australia does. I suspect this is partly a function of numbers. Jews make up about 2% of the American population and less than 1% of the Australian population. Jews have a more dominant position in America (particularly in finance, academia and media) than they do in Australia. With this power comes increased safety.

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Jews & Draft-Dodging

Posted on October 3, 2014 by Luke Ford

During WWI, Jews served in the German armed forces at a higher rate than their percentage of the population. I’m not sure that has been true in America. Most American Jews who’ve discussed this topic with me see no moral problem in dodging the American draft. They don’t see Jews as having an obligations to the wider society. Jews should get while the getting is good.

In his lecture “A Gadol Walks Among Us – Rav Simcha Wasserman and Toras Emes”, Rabbi Shlomo Einhorn says: “For a certain time, he would take in those who were draft-dodging, like many of the makeshift yeshivas that were opened up here to help people get out of going to the Vietnam war.”

I have some sympathy for this as America’s operation in Vietnam was a mess (though WWII was different). I’m not sure that Jews avoided Vietnam service at a higher rate than non-Jews in similar socio-economic circumstances. Besides, surely there’s nothing greater that Jews can do for the world than to study Torah. Let the goyim fight their wars while Jews study the sacred text.

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Power Poses & The Alexander Technique

Posted on October 3, 2014 by Luke Ford

Imogen Ragone tells Robert Rickover: “Leaders in the animal kingdom and among humans had the same characteristics — high levels of testosterone and low levels of cortisol… Animals and humans alike were more expanded. They made themselves bigger. From there she developed this idea of power poses.”

“[With Alexander Technique,] you can improve every situation you are in. If you need to sit with your arms crossed, you can do it in a way that is more expansive.”

“The high power poses are quite masculine and the low power poses are more common for females.”

Robert: “By having your legs apart and your hands on your hips, it raises your internal center of gravity and the shrinking version lowers your internal center of gravity. I would imagine that anything you do to raise your center of gravity would [empower you], even having your hands on your head or bending your knees or having your feet apart. Almost anything you do apart from slumping will raise your center of gravity.”

Imogen: “Power poses not only changed how people perceived you but it also changed how the people doing the poses felt about themselves.”

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