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"This guy knows all the gossip, the ins and outs, the lashon hara of the Orthodox world. He’s an [expert] in... all the inner workings of the Orthodox world." (Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff) LATEST POSTS:
- Dennis Prager v Cedars-Sinai Lawsuit
- Dennis Prager Through Randall Collins: Interaction Ritual Chains
- What is a ‘Received Idea’?
- Jordan Bardella: The Manufacture of Normality
- Everyone Became Television: Bourdieu’s Warning and the 2026 Iran War
- Marine Le Pen
- The Coalition-Proximity Rule
- Nigel Farage
- Bernard Haykel: A Life Between the Text and the Gun
- Walker Connor (1926-2017)
- Benedict Anderson and the Nation as Imagination
- Anthony D. Smith: The Student Who Kept the Question and Rejected the Answer
- Ernest Gellner
- Eric Kaufmann: The Man Who Made the Majority Visible
- Dominic Cummings: A Biography
- Steve Lopez: The Last City Columnist
- California Historian Kevin Starr
- Stephen Kotkin: A Life in Power
- William T. Vollmann: An American Life in Excess
- Rod Dreher: A Life in Exile
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- * The Enlightenment Wasn’t Enlightened (6-23-26)
* Mr. Burge Draws The Line (6-23-26)
* 'Improving on Democracy' (6-17-26)
* People Leak To People Who Are Fun (6-11-26)
* Why Does Australia Produce So Many Great Journalists? (6-11-26)
* Steve Wynn and the Press: Power, Litigation, and the Contest Over Las Vegas (6-3-26)
* Sheldon Adelson and the Journalists (6-3-26)
* The Vigilant Animal: Thinkers Who Reject the Myth of Human Gullibility (6-2-26)
* The Cost of Refusing the Misunderstanding Myth (6-2-26)
* Show Me How It Travels (6-2-26)
* The Norm Explainers (6-2-26)
* Centering Marginalized Voices (6-1-26)
* What would it look like if the Washington Post put its reader first? (6-1-26)
* What would it look like if the Financial Times put its reader first? (6-1-26)
* What It Would Mean for the Los Angeles Times to Put the Reader First? (6-1-26)
* What It Would Mean for The New York Times to Put the Reader First? (6-1-26)
* Why Wembanyama Lives on the Perimeter (5-31-26)
* The Emotional Palettes Of San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco & Sacramento (5-27-26)
* The Administrative Capital: Sacramento Legal Culture (5-27-26)
* San Diego - The Quiet Republic (5-27-26)
* The Quiet Bar: San Diego Legal Culture (5-27-26)
* SF v LA Legal Culture (5-27-26)
* Why Talent Travels Poorly Between San Francisco and Los Angeles (5-27-26)
* San Francisco and Los Angeles as Rival Models of Urban Access (5-27-26)
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Tag Archives: blog
Tamara: Wait Until You Are In Love Before Having Sex
Tamara is a 20-something third year law student. She writes a dating blog for the Jewish Journal called Tattletales. Watch our complete interview.
Posted in Tamara Shayne Kagel
Tagged blog, having sex, Jewish Journal, Love, tamara
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Blogging In Real Time
Tamara is a 20-something third year law student. She writes a dating blog for the Jewish Journal called Tattletales. Watch our complete interview. Tamara went to Adat Ariel Conservative Jewish day school through sixth grade and graduated from Calabassas High … Continue reading
Posted in Tamara Shayne Kagel
Tagged blog, Blogging, field trip, jewish day school, Jewish Journal, junior statesmen of america, oh god, real time, star kids, stripper, tamara, undergraduate degrees
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Do You Want Me To Go To LimmudLA 2011?
You can read here my heartbreaking works of staggering genius from 2008, 2009, 2010. I don’t expect my readers to pick up all of the $500 tab, but if your paypal donations (see the button on the upper left of … Continue reading
Posted in Limmud
Tagged blog, golden opportunity, paypal donations, staggering genius
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The Young Shul
Email: “Hello, I really like your blog, especially your review of synagogues. I too am a convert to Judaism… I was wondering if you would recommend a few synagogues (preferably Conservative or Reform) with a good community and younger membership … Continue reading
Posted in Los Angeles, Synagogue
Tagged blog, conservative shul, Jews, Judaism, synagogues
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I’m Not Rebuilding, I’m Reloading
I know I have not been blogging much the past three months. That will change in time. I don’t know when, but in theory I remain as committed to my writing as ever. My blogging ebbs and flows. It depends … Continue reading
How Do You Change Your IP Address?
guest4: Luke are you there? It’s… *waves* Do you know how to change an IP? guest4: I’ve unplugged my computer for hours and still the same freaking IP. I’m asking everyone and posting on tech forums but nothing yet that’s … Continue reading
Posted in Internet
Tagged anonymous browsing, best buy, blog, comcast, how do you change your ip address, proxies, waves
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Tamar Fox Interview
She’s an elegant writer. Check out her her blog and her work on Jewcy.com and MyJewishLearning.com. We talk over the phone for an hour today.. From Chicago, Tamar, 24, lives in New York. She recently got her MFA in Creative … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging
Tagged blog, elegant writer, fox, jewish day school, Judaism, mfa, minyan, person kind, quot, quot quot, shomer shabbat, tamar, vanderbilt
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When Is Iranian Leader Mahmoud Ahmadinijad Gonna Update His Blog?
It’s been almost two years since he last blogged. He’s not going to get a lot of traffic if he doesn’t get with the program. I’m also surprised he hasn’t signed up with Google Adsense to monetize his work. I … Continue reading
I’m Having WordPress Trouble
I tried to upgrade my version of semiologic pro wordpress on http://refinancemortgagenow.net/blog/ but it didn’t work, so I backed up my database and then deleted everything from that /blog folder. I reinstalled wordpress and the latest version of semiologic pro (5.6), … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged blog, endeavors, moral leader, philosophies, six months
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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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