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Tag Archives: youtube
Live Torah Talk With Rabbi Rabbs
This week’s Torah portion is Chukkat (Number 19 – 22). Rabbi Rabbs says a major rav gave him a cheter (permission) to go f*** himself. We delve. From Wikipedia: Chukat, Hukath, or Chukkas (Hebrew: ????, �decree,� � the ninth word, … Continue reading
Posted in Torah
Tagged distinctive word, pilgrimage festival, shabbat parah, torah reading, weekly torah portion, youtube
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Live Cam Interview With Rabbi Rabbs
Rabbi Hershel “Rabbs” Remer — a comic — has spent most of his life in Los Angeles. (R. Rabbs YouTube) Luke: “When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?” Rabbi: “I wanted to … Continue reading
Posted in Orthodoxy, R. Rabbs, Rabbis
Tagged amateur night, comedy store, greatest moment of my life, hershel, moment of my life, rabbs, youtube
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Bearded Community
Paul emails: Hi Luke: I saw your video “Will a beard hurt my job prospects” on youtube and I just wanted to say I think you have a great beard. I am bearded myself and my dad doesn’t trust men … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged growing a beard, mathematical term, men with beards, supportive place, youtube, zenzizenzizenzic
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Tagged.com Creates Social Havoc
Report: Shelly emails: I am doing some research on tagged as I want to expose what a scam site it is I am new on youtube and basically clueless how to do most things on here and my profile is … Continue reading
Posted in Internet
Tagged attorney general cuomo, ny state attorney general, state attorney general, tagged com, youtube
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Using Torah For Secular Songs
Orthodox rabbi Gil Student blogs: The Forward has an article about a recent trend of mainstream Israeli singers using passages from the Bible and other religious texts in songs (link). While it is not clear to me how much of … Continue reading
Posted in Hirhurim, Music, Torah
Tagged gil student, jewish tradition, orthodox rabbi, religious texts, sacred verses, sarit hadad, secular songs, shma yisrael, youtube
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Dennis Prager Likes ABBA
Dennis loved the Eurovision music contest and spent an hour on YouTube watching the songs and the pretty girls performing in them. On his second hour of his radio show today, Dennis saidto his producer Allan Estein and his tech … Continue reading
Posted in Dennis Prager, Music
Tagged Dennis Prager, estein, music contest, pretty girls, rare example, youtube
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Bloggers Should Take Lessons From Rock Stars
Here’s a thought-provoking piece from the Columbia Journalism Review: He takes the stage clad in a black turtleneck. his famous line is, “Green is the new red, white, and blue.” Tonight, and other nights, he is paid tens of thousands … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Journalism
Tagged black turtleneck, columbia journalism review, culture method, media appearances, thomas friedman, youtube
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Google Threatens Blog For Publishing Youtube Revenue Share Contract
From Valleywag: Google’s lawyers usually busy themselves trying to defend their right to keep content online — so Google’s search engine can index it, of course. Odd, then, to see Stacey Wexler, litigation counsel for Google, send New York tech … Continue reading
Posted in Google
Tagged campaign budget, Google, litigation counsel, silicon alley, video creators, youtube
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