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Girl
I met Molly Dodge about five years ago through this website. We used to chat on the phone. Here’s an article about her and her daughter: Abbie and Molly Dodge One look at Abbie Dodge’s smiling face, framed with ringlets … Continue reading
Posted in Health
Tagged abbie, arthritis foundation, carley, childhood illness, emergency clinic, florida chapter, growing pains, jra, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, leg pains, mayo clinic, mollie, north naples, rheumatoid arthritis, ringlets, rsquo, s hospital, smiling face, volunteer program director, wavy brown hair
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Former USC Quarterback Matt Leinart Photographed In Hot Tub With Four Hotties
I’ve made a video. This is not the path to happiness, Matt. Believe me, I’ve tried it. You’ll find no lasting satisfaction here. Casual sex is only rewarding for the first three decades. After that, you’ll find it starting to … Continue reading
Posted in Sex
Tagged army intel, beer pong, birth dates, brown hair, casual sex, colleen, downers grove, exact birth, fake ids, hennessy, hot tub, hotties, karley, myspace, physical pleasures, rsquo, three decades, usc quarterback matt, young girls, zebra
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The Tape & The Talmud
From the New York Times: Four days before his first North American Boxing Federation title defense, Yuri Foreman sat in the basement of a Brooklyn brownstone studying Shulchan Aruch, the code of Jewish law. By early afternoon, he would be … Continue reading
Posted in Boxing
Tagged american boxing, arum, boxing career, boxing federation, brownstone, code of jewish law, jewish leaders, knockouts, new york board of rabbis, New York Times, observant jew, potential danger, puncher, rabbi joseph, risk and reward, rsquo, shulchan aruch, world champion, Yeshiva University, yuri foreman
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Ignorant In Yeshiva
Marc B. Shapiro writes: This phenomenon, of great scholars not being aware of things that most people reading the Seforim blog learned years ago, should not surprise us. The traditional yeshiva curriculum is very narrow, and you can spend your … Continue reading
Posted in Marc B. Shapiro, Yeshiva
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CBS’s LA Affiliate Cuts Staff
ERSNews reports: Well it looks like the cost cutting at CBS O&O’s around the country has just hit Los Angeles. Reports from the Viacom duopoly in Los Angeles have a round of layoffs (also known as firings back in the … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Los Angeles
Tagged anchors, city denver, duopoly, executive producers, granddaddy, greg phillips, inland empire, jaime garza, jennifer davis, jennifer sabih, layoffs, moniker, newspath, per diems, rsquo, salt lake city, syndication service, tv shoptalk, viacom, WGA
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Four Torah Sages Died This Month
Shlomo Greenwald writes for The Jewish Press: The Orthodox Jewish world mourns the loss of four prominent figures who passed away in recent days, Rabbi Eli Teitelbaum, Mr. Bentzion Dunner, Rabbi Moshe Fuller, and Rabbi Yitzchok Chinn, each of whom … Continue reading
Posted in Rabbis
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Was The Rav Modern Orthodox?
Marc B. Shapiro blogs: Since I mentioned some stories from Halakhic Man that show that the Rav did not have a Modern Orthodox ethos, I will also say something about the following story, which some have wondered about. Once … Continue reading
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Tagged adherent, Christianity, elitism, hasidism, Marc B. Shapiro, Modern Orthodox, nbsp, notion, nots, prayers, psalm book, renown, rsquo, saints, seforim, Synagogue, talmud, torah study, traditional judaism, younger generation
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Rabbis & Communism
Marc B. Shapiro’s latest post is up on the Seforim blog: …Yet in the entire history of the Jewish people I don’t know of any source that says that it is good to be poor… …The notion that it is … Continue reading
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Why Are There No Female Saints In Judaism?
Professor Marc B. Shapiro writes: Since I mentioned some stories from Halakhic Man that show that the Rav did not have a Modern Orthodox ethos, I will also say something about the following story, which some have wondered about. Once … Continue reading
Posted in Judaism
Tagged adherent, Christianity, elitism, female saints, hasidism, Marc B. Shapiro, notion, nots, prayers, professor marc, psalm book, rav, renown, rsquo, seforim, Synagogue, talmud, torah study, traditional judaism, younger generation
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What Is Marc B. Shapiro’s Ideology?
He says he’s Modern Orthodox and he seems to me to be Modern Orthodox. And I guess that’s the answer to the question in my headline. I asked Marc about his ideology Saturday night and he essentially said he was … Continue reading →