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- 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
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- 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
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- Dominic Cummings: A Biography
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- Stephen Kotkin: A Life in Power
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* 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)
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* 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)
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* SF v LA Legal Culture (5-27-26)
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* San Francisco and Los Angeles as Rival Models of Urban Access (5-27-26)
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Tag Archives: Jewcy
The Disaster Of LimmudNY
I’m glad I don’t live in the North-East. A search for "limmud" on Google News reveals zero coverage of this conference. Here are photos. My experience of LImmudLA was the opposite of this. This year’s program should be no different. … Continue reading
Posted in Limmud
Tagged electric space heaters, Jewcy, nearby hotel, nevele, outdated amenities, visual estimate
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Helen Jupiter Laid Off Erev Yom Kippur From Jewcy.com
Helen sent out the following this afternoon: Dear Friends and Colleagues, I am very sad to report that after 14 months of hard work — often solitary, always effective — for Jewcy.com, I’ve been let go. I spent the majority … Continue reading
Posted in Helen Jupiter
Tagged better person, erev yom kippur, Jewcy, sad time, tahl, yom kippur
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I’m Live On My Cam With Jewcy.com’s Joey Kurtzman
We’re studying this week’s Torah portion Re’eh. Click here to join the fun. Full video. Deuteronomy 14:25 says you can spend your money as your heart desires. How do the rabbis interpret this? Doing this according to your heart’s desire … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Torah
Tagged Jewcy, joey, torah portion
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I’m Studying This Week’s Torah Portion Live On My Cam With Jewcy’s Joey Kurtzman At 3 PM PST
Click here to join the fun. Complete video. From Jewcy.com: Joey Kurtzman is president of Jewcy Partners, LLC, and co-founding editor of Jewcy.com. Prior to joining Jewcy he was an on-air contributor to Ireland’s political and cultural radio program, The … Continue reading
Posted in Joey Kurtzman, Personal, Torah
Tagged book of deuteronomy, Jewcy, mount gerizim, rsquo, torah reading, weekly torah portion
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JConnectLA’s Tu’B’Av Party Thursday Night
The first two pictures (all my pictures are taken in lousy light with my new Blackberry Curve) are from The Eighth Day band: Michael Taviv, JConnectLA director: Helen Jupiter, managing editor of Jewcy.com, with her manly man: Luke Ford and … Continue reading
Posted in JConnect LA
Tagged blackberry curve, Jewcy, luke ford, Moshav Band, orthodox rabbi, philanderer
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Breaking Up 2.0
From Jewcy: It’s Over, Sign Off (or At Least, Be Invisible): Who hasn’t sat and stared at their Buddy List, trying desperately to diagnose the emotional status of their significant other based on their idle times and away messages? If … Continue reading
Posted in Dating
Tagged emotional status, Jewcy, relationship status, social networking, stealth mode
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Where Are The Charedim On Newsweek’s Most Influential Rabbis List?
All the orthodox rabbis are Modern Orthodox. Tarfon writes on Jewcy: There seems to be a substantial LA-centric bias to the "influential" list. In what sense is R’ Hier influential? Does anyone outside of LA know or care about the … Continue reading
Posted in Rabbis
Tagged AJU, artson, bias, incoming president, Jewcy, jewish university, national presence, national reputation, nbsp, newsweek, orthodox rabbis, ra, rabbinical school, skirball center, wexler, wohlberg
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