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Tag Archives: Jewish Journal
Questions For Dating Columnist Tamara Shayne Kagel
Tamara is a 20-something third year law student. She writes a dating blog for the Jewish Journal called Tattletales. Here are the highlights or watch the whole thing below. Dennis Wilen: And there arose over the Jewish Journal dating column … Continue reading
Posted in Dating, Tamara Shayne Kagel
Tagged dennis wilen, development aspect, female friends, hechsher, hovel, JDate, Jewish Journal, luke ford, lukeisback, orthodox community, rabbs, sexual satisfaction, tamara shayne, tea and crumpets, tiger print
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Amy Klein Update
The former managing editor of the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles now lives in New York. She’s just launched AmyKlein.net. She has a Modern Love column coming out in the New York Times Dec. 19. This one is not about … Continue reading
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Tagged Amy Klein, camping salon, Jewish Journal, managing editor, New York Times
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She Finds It Hard To Say No
Tamara Shayne Kagel writes for the Jewish Journal: But pretty soon, it became clear, I was not going to date this guy. He’s a few years younger than me and works a cash register, but of course one day, he’d … Continue reading
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Tagged cash register, Jewish Journal, kagel, tamara shayne, time in my life
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Do Large Breasts Belong On The Pulpit?
Jonathan Kirsch writes in the Jewish Journal: Levy’s account of her own self-reinvention as a rabbi, which inspired her to create Nashuva, is kind of a parallel narrative in “Hope Will Find You,” and it’s just as affecting and enlightening … Continue reading
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Tagged huge breasts, Jewish Journal, jonathan kirsch, large breasts, rabbinate, reinvention
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JJ: A Jewish Apology to the World
So I came across this headline in the latest Jewish Journal. I couldn’t believe it. A Jewish apology to the world? For what? I had to read on. The article was by Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz, founder of Uri L’Tzedek. He … Continue reading
Posted in Agriprocessors, Jewish Journal, R. Shmuly Yanklowitz
Tagged american blacks, criminal violence, illegitimate births, Jewish Journal, kosher products, welfare dependency
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Whatever Happened To Pico-Robertson?
Joe emails: I grew up in Pico Robertson – I was probably the first customer of Nagilla Pizza. When you went there on a saturday night, it was the who’s who of YICC (already the self important place it is), … Continue reading
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Tagged icarly, isfahan iran, Jewish Journal, orthodox jews, persian family, YICC
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A Convert Laments
I’m tired of all this Jewish lamenting over the latest conversion bill. I’m a convert to Orthodox Judaism and a well respected one at that! Like Jewish philosopher Jacob Stein, you’d be hard-pressed to find any Orthodox Jew who has … Continue reading
Posted in Conversion, Haredi, Orthodoxy
Tagged american jews, conversion program, jewish identity, Jewish Journal, orthodox conversion, orthodox judaism, panties in a knot, second intifada, statue of jesus
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Do Your Own Thing For Israel
David Suissa writes in this week’s Jewish Journal: If Brous and her camp want to help Israel by showing a conciliatory and self-reflective side to the world – rather than a rah-rah side – they should just do it. For … Continue reading
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Tagged brous, Jewish Journal, peace lovers, public rally, reflective side, walks of life
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Rabbi Sharon Brous Compares Sunday’s Rally For Israel To A Laker Rally
Rabbi Sharon Brous writes for the Jewish Journal. I wonder if she will face any consequences for the appalling things she wrote. I expect her congregation of Ikar is far more leftist than Jewish and so they really don’t give … Continue reading
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