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Tag Archives: shabbat
Orthodox Girls Gone Wild – Hitting Hollywood Saturday Night For A Birthday Party
I wake up Saturday morning with a tickle in my throat. What’s she doing here? I contemplate skipping motzei Shabbat karaoke but don’t want to leave the boyfriend in the lurch. Poor man. Without me, he’d be stuck in a … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged anne lamott, bachelorette party, book bird, chastity, fellow jew, gentle curves, girls dance, head in my hands, innocent wonder, jezebel, karaoke room, kosher sushi, lurch, motzei shabbat, nice girl, no inhibitions, nymphomaniacs, orthodox jews, Orthodoxy, paperman, poor man, quot quot, revealing tops, seventh day adventists, shabbat, sweet agony, tight jeans
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JConnectLA Friday Night
Workmen’s Circle. 6:20 p.m. I’m the second person to arrive. It’s my first Shabbat in over eight years without my black undertaker suit. Instead I’m wearing this striped ill-fitting number I got for $20 from the Jewish thrift store on … Continue reading
Posted in JConnect LA, Personal
Tagged Alcohol, bima, boss, daven, davening, floating in outer space, friday night, ground control, heart, jconnect, joyful noise, major tom to ground control, minyan, mizel, peculiar way, planet earth, prayers, Sabbath, second person, sermon, shabbat, shlomo carlebach, starman, stunning dress, thrift store, undertaker, workmen
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Another View On Yossi Shereshevsky
A rabbi writes: Levi, Not sure how you get the best scoops on these stories (Mordechai Gafni, Isaac Hersh), but your info seems the most complete. Regarding "Sherry", what we called Yossi as a teenager, here’s the other side of … Continue reading
Posted in Sharashefsky
Tagged bitter divorce, contradictions, decade, east coast, hersh, israel goldstein, Kollel, orthodox community, orthodox woman, perfidy, personal knowledge, rabbi yossi, religious court, rogues, scoops, shabbat, sherry, signs, teenager, whitewash
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I’m Live On My Cam!
Click here to join the fun. Guest43: luke you are a grecian god without any formula Guest43: mmm… breakfast of champions welshdragon: lo u’re up early Guest43: he was partying with they young ones last night welshdragon: just got out … Continue reading
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Tagged amp, anticipation, baubles, beshert, breakfast of champions, down to earth, Emma, fry, grease, grecian god, horses, june bride, nbsp, shabbat, slick hair, suntan oil, weill, young ones
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Israel Seeks Extradition From Canada Of Rabbi Accused Of Child Abuse
Here’s the video. Here’s the news from The Jerusalem Report: The police will issue an international arrest warrant this week against an extremist rabbi who fled to Canada and is a key suspect in one of the worst child abuse … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse
Tagged abusive mother, betar, brain damage, canadian citizenship, child abuse cases, elior, extradition, extremist, hot plate, illit, indictment, international arrest warrant, jerusalem police, jerusalem report, police spokesman, rabbi, shabbat, spiritual mentor, vegetative state, worst child abuse cases
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Three Jews Struck By A Car In Pico/Robertson Friday Night Walking Home From Shabbat Dinner
Scott Shafrin (Hebrew school teacher) and Lizzie Pollack were not seriously injured. Rabbinic intern Elan Babchuck suffered a broken leg, separated shoulder, numerous lacerations and other injuries. He’ll be in the hospital for a few days. If anyone wants his … Continue reading
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Tagged big trouble in little china, books of moses, broken leg, collateral field, college honors program, commonwealth college, elan, english minors, few days, five books of moses, friday night, hebrew school, Jews, lacerations, lizzie, mba student, old man and the sea, pollack, schechter day school, school teacher, shabbat, shabbat dinner, sign gemini, solomon schechter day school, umass amherst, university of judaism, university of massachusetts amherst, university of torino, walking home, ziegler school, zodiac sign
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Professor Marc B. Shapiro Speaks In Los Angeles This Weekend
Professor Shapiro received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and holds the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Scranton. An author of several books and dozens of scholarly articles, Professor Shapiro is considered one of … Continue reading
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Tagged albie, debra cohen, friday night oneg, halacha, harvard university, intellectual history, jewish book, judaic studies, Marc B. Shapiro, marc shapiro, national jewish book award, orthodox theology, professor marc, professor shapiro, scholarly articles, shabbat, shabbat morning, university of scranton, weinberg, yeshiva world
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Chaim Amalek: ‘If you let the word out that shul was the place to get laid, many fallen Jews would attend’
Chaim says: "Think of the holy work you could be doing! This is no joke. You could be monetizing this, and bringing fallen secular Jews closer to HaShem. I could write half of this book in a week for you. … Continue reading
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Tagged amalek, armed guards, ball park, God, haircut, joke, kiddish, live cam chat, meeting women, monday afternoon, pigeons, polo shirts, poor man, quot quot, secular jews, shabbat, story of my life, time stamp, video work, walmart, wave your hands, Yarmulke
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What Is Marc B. Shapiro’s Ideology?
He says he’s Modern Orthodox and he seems to me to be Modern Orthodox. And I guess that’s the answer to the question in my headline. I asked Marc about his ideology Saturday night and he essentially said he was … Continue reading →