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"This guy knows all the gossip, the ins and outs, the lashon hara of the Orthodox world. He’s an [expert] in... all the inner workings of the Orthodox world." (Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff) LATEST POSTS:
- Dennis Prager v Cedars-Sinai Lawsuit
- Dennis Prager Through Randall Collins: Interaction Ritual Chains
- What is a ‘Received Idea’?
- Jordan Bardella: The Manufacture of Normality
- Everyone Became Television: Bourdieu’s Warning and the 2026 Iran War
- Marine Le Pen
- The Coalition-Proximity Rule
- Nigel Farage
- Bernard Haykel: A Life Between the Text and the Gun
- Walker Connor (1926-2017)
- Benedict Anderson and the Nation as Imagination
- Anthony D. Smith: The Student Who Kept the Question and Rejected the Answer
- Ernest Gellner
- Eric Kaufmann: The Man Who Made the Majority Visible
- Dominic Cummings: A Biography
- Steve Lopez: The Last City Columnist
- California Historian Kevin Starr
- Stephen Kotkin: A Life in Power
- William T. Vollmann: An American Life in Excess
- Rod Dreher: A Life in Exile
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* Mr. Burge Draws The Line (6-23-26)
* 'Improving on Democracy' (6-17-26)
* People Leak To People Who Are Fun (6-11-26)
* Why Does Australia Produce So Many Great Journalists? (6-11-26)
* Steve Wynn and the Press: Power, Litigation, and the Contest Over Las Vegas (6-3-26)
* Sheldon Adelson and the Journalists (6-3-26)
* The Vigilant Animal: Thinkers Who Reject the Myth of Human Gullibility (6-2-26)
* The Cost of Refusing the Misunderstanding Myth (6-2-26)
* Show Me How It Travels (6-2-26)
* The Norm Explainers (6-2-26)
* Centering Marginalized Voices (6-1-26)
* What would it look like if the Washington Post put its reader first? (6-1-26)
* What would it look like if the Financial Times put its reader first? (6-1-26)
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Tag Archives: minyan
Tamar Fox Interview
She’s an elegant writer. Check out her her blog and her work on Jewcy.com and MyJewishLearning.com. We talk over the phone for an hour today.. From Chicago, Tamar, 24, lives in New York. She recently got her MFA in Creative … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging
Tagged blog, elegant writer, fox, jewish day school, Judaism, mfa, minyan, person kind, quot, quot quot, shomer shabbat, tamar, vanderbilt
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Hagbahah & The Wall Street Meltdown
Rabbi Gil Student writes: Torah scrolls are now rolled all the way to the right, at the beginning of the Torah, with almost the entire weight on the left side. This means that someone who does hagbahah, lifts up the … Continue reading
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Tagged chandelier, gabbai, gil student, minyan, multiple times, torah scrolls
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While I Fight To Get Back In, Others Fight To Leave Pico-Robertson
From my live cam chat: guest36: Luke: so where do you daven now? YourMoralLeader: various guest36: why were you booted? YourMoralLeader: on my blog, ‘coz i outed that 18yo jina davidovich guest36: thought because you posted about the lawsuit, or … Continue reading
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Tagged 18yo, live cam chat, minyan, person phone, shul
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Luke Ford Go Away!
I keep seeing this sign on shuls throughout Pico-Robertson: Chaim Amalek emails: "Luke, be a man and walk out of that temple on your own accord. I’m sure the Gay Minyan will accept you just the way you are." Khunrum … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Pico/Robertson
Tagged amalek, ford, luke ford, minyan, own accord, shuls
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‘He’s Like A Little Lamb’
A friend calls: "Everything hurts him. He’s got a soft heart. He protects women. You’re like a wolf. He’s protecting the women from you. He’s a lamb. Be nice to him. He has a heavy heart." "He’s going to have … Continue reading
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Tagged heavy heart, little lamb, minyan, quot quot, soft heart
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Right-Wingers Bolt Shaarey Zedek
Joe emails: It looks like the glue that was Aron Tendler has finally lost some of its stickiness. The right wingers at Shaarey Zedek for some unknown reason lionized Tendler, even though he was short on most things, including but … Continue reading
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Tagged edelstein, minyan, nerdy guy, right wingers, scholarly abilities, tendler
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Stop Embarrassing Yourself
Gadi Pickholz emails: Dude: Even for the lowly standards of your blog, you seem to be digging new nadirs for yourself precisely erev rosh hashana. You still do not begin to comprehend the chofetz chayim, nor the most basic responsiblities … Continue reading
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Tagged dirty laundry, distant corner, farthest reaches, lowys, minyan, personal capacity
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Three New Regimes at LA’s Modern Orthodox High Schools
Jane emails: "Write about the 3 new heads of school in Modern Orthodox high schools – Rabbi Glass at YULA Boys, Rabbi Lieberman at YULA Girls, and Rabbi Weinbach at Shalhevet. Find out what students have to say about R’ … Continue reading
‘Praying In Her Own Voice’
I invite a Torah girl to watch this documentary with me. She replies: Do you need me to be a 10th for a minyan of fat, ugly women? "These women are fat and passionate and old and bizarre." I’ll come wearing tefillin, talis … Continue reading
I Learn To Pray Again
I’d pretty much given up on my ability to pray in shul. It just seemed so lifeless. Then I returned to the Happy Minyan and learned to pray again. I feel myself opening up to God there in a way … Continue reading
Posted in Happy Minyan, Pico/Robertson
Tagged David Sacks, God, minyan, saturdays, Torah
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