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Tag Archives: girls
Asking A Girl Out
Dennis Prager said on his radio show Nov. 30, 2010: “I remember in high school thinking that the boys who were unbelievably confident in their dealings with girls were not the finest of the guys. I was very nervous about … Continue reading
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Tagged Dennis Prager, girls, handkerchief, radio show, sweat
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Bibliyoga.com’s Marcus J. Freed Live On My Cam
Here is his site Bibliyoga.com. I met Marcus at LimmudLA last February. We started our conversation at Jeff’s Gourmet Sunday evening. It was cold and windy. Marcus: "Bibliyoga is a body-soul workout….[connecting] spirituality to the body. " Luke: "Can straight … Continue reading
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Tagged acting, bible lessons, egg, females, girls, jesus christ, last ten years, social misfits, Torah, twister, Yoga
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Meeting Girls At Kiddish
A friend emails: "I finally took heed of your suggestion and went to synagogue. Beginners service at a modern Orthodox synagogue. Very uplifting. As for uplifting skirts, lots of nubile Jewesses there. Having them separated during the service makes them … Continue reading
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Tagged girls, kiddush, orthodox synagogue, suggestion
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Bais Yaakov Bans Its Girls From Going To Gyms
Bais Yaakov Los Angeles (ultra-Orthodox high school for girls in the Fairfax/La Brea area) has banned its students from going to gyms, even female-only gyms such as Curves. Needless to say, Bais Yaakov girls are also banned from going on … Continue reading
Book Clubs Are For Girls
In theory, I should be hot for book clubs. I typically read several books a week. I love discussing books with smart people. I love to bond with people over books. Yet I’ve never enjoyed a book club. I rarely … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews
Tagged blowhard, book clubs, chicks, conservative synagogues, Dennis Prager, drivel, equality, girls, hierarchy, insights, jane austen, jane austen book, own horn, parsha, profound insight, retards, thoughts and feelings, toot, torah classes, torah portion
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Mongol – The Best Movie I’ve Seen In 2008
I just saw a great movie — Mongol. Video The tagline: "Greatness comes to those who take it." It’s an exciting manly movie but with love and children thrown in for girls. There’s even humor. Mongol humor does not get … Continue reading
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Tagged action scenes, cinematography, dull moment, elizabeth the golden age, flick, followers, girls, greatness, inaccuracies, Japan, large portion, Love, mongolia, original man, rocks, scenery, subtitle, tagline
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Nice Jewish Madam Michelle Braun Profiled In Latest Rolling Stone
This is the issue with the girls from the The Hills on the cover. Vanessa Grigoriadis writes: The sex business has changed dramatically in the past decade, and no change has been bigger than the obliteration of the social taboo … Continue reading
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Tagged braun, decade, ford, girls, luke ford, madam, obliteration, porn industry, porn star, rolling stone, sex business, taboo, vanessa grigoriadis, web journalist
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Who Is Hancock Park’s Hungarian Mafia And Should We Fear Them?
They are not violent. They’re Orthodox Jews. They have their wives and their girlfriends and their illegitimate children and their shady tax shelters. Says a source: "They fix surgically the eyes of the Downs Syndrome girls and even marry them … Continue reading
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Tagged downs syndrome, dowry, girlfriends, girls, Hancock Park, hungarian, illegitimate children, Mafia, orthodox jews, tax shelters
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‘All The Sad Young Literary Men’
The New York Times writes about this new novel: Then there’s Sam, who wants to write “the great Zionist novel.” Talia, Sam’s Israeli girlfriend, tells him he doesn’t love the land enough to write the great Zionist novel. There are … Continue reading
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Tagged 300s, bad character, coward, enemies, excuse, girlfriend, girlfriends, girls, Google, Journey, literary men, mdash, nemeses, new novel, New York Times, rsquo, senses, shallowness, talia, young man
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Feeling My Age
So three women in their twenties call me Saturday night and invite me to go out with them. I dress up in my Saturday night finest and after an hour or so of chit chat, they’re ready to hit the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alcohol, beard, blog, chit chat, Drugs, few minutes, girls, goodbyes, heart, horizons, saturday night, stages of grief, three women
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