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Tag Archives: fellow jews
How Shul Reminds Me Of Psycho-Analysis
I’m struck by how at age 45, I keep playing out my family dynamics in the wider world. I keep relating to people through the prism of the way I learned to relate to my parents. Shul dynamics remind me … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Psychology, Synagogue
Tagged ancient tradition, family changes, fellow jews, holy rituals, psycho analysis, psycho therapy
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Criticize Blacks And You’re A Racist
On his radio show Dec. 12, Dennis Prager: “As a white person, may I say that most conservative whites believe that a great majority of blacks think this country is a racist cesspool. If they don’t, then everyone who speaks … Continue reading
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Tagged cesspool, Dennis Prager, dennis white, fellow jews, talk radio show, white person
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You Can’t Observe The Sabbath In Your Heart Only
A couple of weeks ago was Shuvuot. I got asked why I could not come in to my Alexander Technique training on those two days. I mentioned first that driving was prohibited on holy days but said the main thing … Continue reading
Posted in Orthodoxy, Personal
Tagged Alexander Technique, fellow jews, grand holiday, jewish holiday, orthodox judaism, singing songs
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This Week’s Torah Talk
I took a cold shower before the show, as I do every week, and it brought me out of my post-surgery slump. Rabbi Hershel Rabbs Remer: TONIGHT’S SHOW features a full line-up of topics, including: Lusting after Persian chicks, trashing … Continue reading
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Tagged characteristics of a leader, Dennis Prager, fellow jews, interpreting dreams, psycho therapy, red eye flight, s chat room, sabbath morning
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Jews On Welfare
In a 2010 lecture on Leviticus 25, Dennis Prager said: Jews feeling responsibility for a fellow Jew has carried on to the modern era. For a Jew to go on welfare, even during the depression, was unheard of. It was … Continue reading
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Tagged communist manifesto, conservative group, Dennis Prager, fellow jew, fellow jews, free loan, mexican villages, welfare program
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Five Reasons For Chabad’s Success
Dennis Prager writes for the Jewish Journal: 4. They act happy. In the realm of religion, theological brilliance rarely comes close to a happy personality in its ability to attract (healthy) people to a given faith. The best arguments for … Continue reading
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Tagged chabad rabbi, cheerful demeanor, Dennis Prager, fellow jews, initial skepticism, ultra orthodox jews
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How To Create Excitement At LimmudLA
There was a giddy excitement to the first LimmudLA that has steadily diminished the past two years. That first year, we couldn’t believe what we had. We were just so happy to be together with Jews of all stripes. There … Continue reading
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Tagged fellow jews, giddy excitement, havdalah, kvetching, lonely eyes, shabbat dinner
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Post-Orthodoxy & The Ordination Of Women As Orthodox Rabbis
I don’t know much about Torah but I instinctively find the notion of an ordained female Orthodox rabbi to be post-Orthodox aka outside of Orthodox Judaism. The Orthodox Judaism I thought I knew prescribes very separate roles for men and … Continue reading
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Tagged fellow jews, gender line, intents and purposes, orthodox judaism, orthodox rabbi, orthodox rabbis, rabbi yosef, religious leadership, religious principle
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Shut Down Tropper’s Eternal Jewish Fraud organization?
Here’s the petition: I the undersigned as well as all my fellow sane Jews urge to shut down EJFit’s doors which was founded and headed by “Rabbi” Tropper, who for many years has allegedly been misappropriating funds allocated for poor … Continue reading
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Tagged evil acts, fellow jews, leadership position, sexual acts, tropper, tshuva
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Why Do People Hate Jews?
I was talking a woman the other day who was a secular leftist Jew. She had 12 years of Orthodox Jewish day school. I asked her: "If you were herded into gas chambers next week along with all the other … Continue reading
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Tagged fellow jews, gas chambers, jewish day school, new york subway, why do people hate jews, Yarmulke
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