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Tag Archives: Facebook
This Could Hurt Your Orthodox Marriage Prospects
Heshy Fried writes: Facebook: Unless you are a kiruv rabbi, you have no excuse to be on facebook. If you happen to be on facebook you may want to make sure that you are fans of gedolim and kosher Jewish … Continue reading
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Tagged emunah, Facebook, jewish music, marriage prospects, rabbi
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‘Black Cracker’ – Josh Alan Friedman’s First Novel
Wednesday night I stop by Book Soup on Sunset Blvd for the first stop of the New Texture literary tour with authors Wyatt Doyle, Josh Alan Friedman and Chris Desjardins. Josh Alan’s new book, Black Cracker, has seven glowing reviews … Continue reading
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Tagged autobiographical novel, dallas morning news, dallas observer, dawn rizos, Facebook, Josh Alan Friedman
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EveryJew.com Revolutionizing The Way Jews Talk To Each Other
The Jewish Journal‘s social networking site EveryJew.com has completely changed the way Jews relate to each other. My male friends report it has enabled them to date an entirely higher quality and younger variety of female than was available to … Continue reading
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Tagged ashlyn gere, Facebook, Jewish Journal, male friends, social networking site
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Facing Up To Myself
I’ve been on a jihad — inner spiritual struggle — the past few weeks to reconnect on Facebook with friends from my past who are no longer in my life. Last night, I leafed through my 1983 and 1984 Placer … Continue reading
Posted in Adventist, Personal
Tagged Facebook, high school yearbooks, placer high school, shabbat dinner, shopping at the supermarket, spiritual struggle
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Googled
I’m reading Ken Auletta’s 2009 book Googled. It is filled with privacy experts decrying Google. I don’t share this concern. I think much of this is generational. Kids today are generally more comfortable sharing information about themselves on Facebook etc … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Personal
Tagged Facebook, Google, government computers, ken auletta, privacy experts
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Remembering Girls In Angwin, CA
One of the ways I classify places is whether or not I ever made it there. I only ever made it in LA, Sacramento, Orlando, Vancouver, Las Vegas and Big Sur (beside a cliff overlooking the ocean underneath a loving … Continue reading
Posted in Adventist, Personal, PUC, Sex
Tagged Facebook, fondling, holy sabbath, old acquaintance, pubic hair, smart mouth
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Does Facebook Lead To Defamation?
Orthodox rabbi Gil Student blogs: In this week’s The Jewish Press, R. Mordechai Weiss writes [on page 25]: Then came Facebook and Twitter, which took the Internet to a new level of impropriety. Things are written on Facebook that end … Continue reading
Posted in Gossip, Internet, Orthodoxy, The Jewish Press
Tagged abe froman, Facebook, facebook home, gil student, impropriety, jewish press, lashon hara, orthodox rabbi, rabbi moshe, rabbi weiss, twitter
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Facebook Saves Time
A lot of people — usually losers — tell me they’re not on Facebook because it is a time-waster. It takes them away from the study of Torah. I find being on Facebook saves me time and allows me to … Continue reading
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Tagged Facebook, holy purposes, mortification, sacred text, time waster
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Ask Forgiveness Face-To-Face
From the Detroit Free Press: The Jewish high holidays — which end today on Yom Kippur — are a time when many are called upon to repent and seek forgiveness from others. But in a world where the Internet has … Continue reading
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Tagged day of atonement, detroit free press, Facebook, impersonal nature, jewish holy days, tamarack camps
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