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Tag Archives: rabbi
Maimonides Academy Shift To Right Under Rabbi Gross Leading To MO Parents Taking Their Kids Out
Under Rabbi Karmi Gross, the school has become more strictly Orthodox. Many Modern Orthodox parents are looking for an alternative for their children. They’re looking principally at relocating them to Shalhevet.
Posted in Maimonides Academy LA
Tagged karmi, maimonides, MaimonidesLA, parents, rabbi
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‘It’s Not Like Your Rabbi Will Read It’
Luzdedos1: Good to see you Sunday sailer girl hollyrandall: lol thanks hollyrandall: i read your blog thing hollyrandall: hey can i write about your guilty feelings about masturbation? it would be great coupled with my member seeing me there– … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Personal
Tagged guilty feelings, lol thanks, masturbation, rabbi, sailer
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Hillel Bylaws Up For Vote
I hear Harkham Hillel’s religious dean Rabbi Boruch Sufrin, Morey Levovitz and current puppet president Fallas are being targeted by current and former employees for work related harrassment issues. For the upcoming vote on the bylaws board and executive board … Continue reading
Posted in Harkham Hillel
Tagged allegations, black eye, boatload, boruch, bylaws, eggs, emailed, fallas, harassment, harkham, harrassment issues, headache, Hillel, improvements, morey, omelette, puppet, rabbi, rsquo, secret nothing
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Dear Rabbi,
…can we recruit her for our shul’s women’s minyan? She would make a great Chazzanit! And this girl too, please. I’d come for every minyan and I’d daven with kavannah.
‘Why Didn’t He Molest Me?’
In my capacity as a moral leader, I have to counsel a lot of hurt and confused men and women dealing with the hard knocks that life delivers. Sometimes their pain comes from their rabbi being accused of molestation. "I … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse
Tagged hard knocks, men and women, moral leader, quot, rabbi, shame
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The UnJewish Journal?
Disco Duck emails: Levi, Here is my assessment of the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles. Over time I have noticed that most local Orthodox Rebbeim refer to it as the "unJewish Journal". More than one local Rabbi has given me … Continue reading
Posted in Jewish Journal
Tagged attitudes, bathroom trips, bias, disco duck, drek, excuse, garbage, jewish community, Jewish Journal, Jewish Journalism, Judaism, laughs, levi, nickname, quot, rabbi, Rabbis, segments, smear campaigns, toilet, torah values
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Why Are Jews So Crazy?
palestine4ever: hello Mr. Luke. palestine4ever: Why are Jews so crazy? palestine4ever: I’m not female but if I was, I still cannot wrap my head around a rabbi seduction fantasy. palestine4ever: Pun intended. palestine4ever: It’s like writing erotic fan fiction about … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged Anti-Semitism, assault with a deadly weapon, basketball fan, beard, bertie ahern, better days, cultural understanding, disco duck, fan fiction, gerald ford, greatest sports, hate crime, humble folks, Jews, nbsp, police report, pun, rabbi, seduction, tall blacks, teenagers, twink, wig
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Don’t Take Revenge
I’m studying Sefer HaChinuch — a 14th Century working enumerating all the mitzvas in the Torah — with a rabbi. Today we studied the mitzva of not taking revenge. If someone does something bad to me, I want to hurt … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Torah
Tagged 14th century, bad luck, blog, Dennis Prager, drunk driver, heaven, Judaism, mitzva, moral boundaries, peace, rabbi, rage, taking revenge, Torah, Truth, vengeance
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How Should Religious Zionism React To The Conversion Controversy?
Shahar Ilan writes in Haaretz: If anyone thought that religious Zionism should continue having anything to do with the Chief Rabbinate or the rabbinic courts, along came the ousting of Rabbi Haim Druckman from his position as head of the … Continue reading
Posted in Conversion
Tagged chief rabbinate, conversion controversy, conversion system, conversions, court of appeals, former soviet union, haaretz, israelis, mass conversion, national challenge, rabbi, rabbinical court, Rabbis, religious establishment, religious women, religious zionism, russian immigrants, sabbatical year, tough questions, zionists
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Why Do We Give Other People What We Want?
I’m sitting in my hovel surrounded by freakin’ balloons. Everywhere I go — which isn’t far in here — I’m tripping over and colliding with balloons. They’re big and bright and blue and they’re wishing me a happy birthday. They’re … Continue reading →