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Tag Archives: shul
I Don’t Like To Look At Fat People
Unless the person has some extraordinary qualities or proximities to me, I don’t like to look at fat people. If I see the person in shul or at work or in a writer’s group or at yoga and I get … Continue reading
Posted in Diana Spechler, Personal
Tagged emotional truth, jewish book, new novel, odd jobs, shul, two novels
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Things That Make Orthodox Jews Go Pshhh!
Heshy Fried writes: Pshhh, is one of those things that frummies say when they are proud, honored or honoring someone – I guess the goyishe equivalent would be “hell yeh” or “you da man” and there are many instances when … Continue reading
Posted in Heshy Fried, Orthodoxy
Tagged copyright infringement, devar torah, hell yeh, heshy, shul
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I Want To Study Torah With Hot Chicks
On Torah Talk, we answer the goy Casey’s ten questions about God, we get a review of my memoir “XXX-Communicated: A Rebel Without A Shul” from the holy Rabbi Rabbs and we discuss this week’s Torah portion. I do a … Continue reading
Posted in Torah
Tagged grand rebbe, hot chicks, lukeisback, orthodox rabbis, orthodox shul, questions about god, rabbs, satmars, shul, torah portion
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Rav Yosef Kanefsky Undergoes Angioplasty
An email from BnaiDavid.com: “For those of you who may not have been in Shul over Succot, we are sending this e-mail to let you know that Rabbi Kanefsky underwent an angioplasty late Wednesday afternoon, shortly before Yom Tov. He … Continue reading
Posted in R. Yosef Kanefsky
Tagged congestive heart failure, e mail, edge capability, heart ailments, open heart surgery, seventh day adventists, shul, strict vegetarian diet, Succot, wednesday afternoon, well wishes
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Dennis Prager Delivers The 7th Annual Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture
Who was Ariel Avrech? 10 a.m. Young Israel of Century City (YICC). I walk in clutching a copy of the new novel — By Fire, By Water — written by Mitchell James Kaplan. I flip to the first page, which … Continue reading
Posted in Dennis Prager, Personal, Robert J. Avrech
Tagged Dennis Prager, james kaplan, nathaniel hawthorne, new novel, shul, Young Israel
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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Debates Dennis Prager
This was done March 24, 2008 at Nessah synagogue in Beverly Hillls, a nominally Orthodox Persian shul. Dennis Prager: “I grew up in an East European Hasidic shtibble in New York. The rabbi was from Romania. Ultra-Orthodox. In order to … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th street, Dennis Prager, honor god, rabbi shmuley boteach, shul, yom kippur
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I Want To Be Big & Tough
I want to hear, “Luke, you are so big!” I like to walk into a room and feel big. I like to go out with girls and feel big. I like to walk into shul and feel big. I hate … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged Alexander Technique, little voice, loma linda university, shul, Torah
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Dr. Gershon Hepner Back In Prison
This is his second felony conviction. The Pico-Robertson resident went back to prison about three months ago. He’ll be away for a few years. Rabbi Steven Weil of Beth Jacob wrote a letter in 2005 pleading for Dr. Hepner to … Continue reading
Posted in Gershon Hepner
Tagged felonies, felony conviction, gershon, Gershon Hepner, hebrew academy, lenient sentence, shul
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The Richer The Shul, The Colder
My theory is that rich people feel less of a need to reach out to strangers and to make them feel welcome. Instead, they are used to people clambering for their attention. Perhaps a big part of the reason that … Continue reading
Posted in Synagogue
Tagged churches, proportion, religious beliefs, shul, synagogues
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