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How Do Chabad Guys Do It?
I keep meeting Chabad guys with no money and no college degree and yet they’re married to young women who look like models. How do they do it? Chaim Amalek emails: “Also, HOW DO THEY DO IT? I remember as … Continue reading
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Tagged beautiful woman, brainwashing, hebrew school, school teachers, spiritual successor, torah study
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The Coen Brothers On Judaism
From the Boston Globe: Earlier in the evening, I had attended a screening of the remarkable new Coen brothers film, "A Serious Man,” hosted at Brandeis by the National Center for Jewish Film. The film is being compared to Job … Continue reading
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Tagged boston globe, coen brothers film, hebrew school, jewish concepts, jewish film, pastoral counsel
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LimmudLA 2009 Report II
Part One SATURDAY 3 pm. I walk up and down the corridors looking through peepholes at the various classes. It’s not Torah I seek, it’s visceral human contact. I want to make friends. I want a wife. Most of all, … Continue reading
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Tagged drinking alcohol, hebrew school, hot chicks, luke ford, mark diamond, rosh yeshiva, separate beds, Shalhevet
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Who’s The Rabbi Sholom Kalmanson Who Gave Such A Stemwinder About The Rebbe?
Here’s an article about the speech with a link to the video. Who is this Rabbi Sholom Kalmanson? He appears to be the head of Chabad of Southern Ohio. From chabad.org: Rabbi Sholom B. Kalmanson, Ex. VP, Chabad of Southern Ohio … Continue reading
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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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