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Choose Life
In a 2007 lecture on Leviticus 14-15, Dennis Prager says: Skin disease here is not leprosy. It is not so much a pathologic condition as a condition representing death. Tame aka impure aka unclean means death-oriented. The Torah’s great division … Continue reading
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Tagged anti semite, Dennis Prager, jewish men, literacy rate, pathologic condition, skin disease
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Jewish Journal Singles Columnist Orit Arfa Interviewed About Her New Book
Part two of the interview. Dec. 28, 2009, I interviewed Jewish Journal singles columnist Orit Arfa about her new book on the tests women give men. Orit: “Mansch is inspired by the whole pick-up artist community… I’ve yet to have … Continue reading
Posted in Dating, Orit Arfa
Tagged chauvinism, columnist, feet women, israeli men, Jewish Journal, jewish men, sex in the air
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What Is A MANsch?
Orit Arfa writes for the Jewish Journal: I have found through my dating experience that American Jewish men are often pretty clueless when it comes to dating effectively, or else they come across as nebbish and dorky. I have some … Continue reading
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Tagged arfa, art of seduction, jewish men, male characteristics, nebbish, orit
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Lending A Hand On Shabbos
Just a few minutes before Shuvuot, as I was walking to a friend’s home for dinner, I passed two Mexicans in an alley with a beat-up old truck. A middle-aged man and woman were straining and failing to put a … Continue reading
Posted in Orthodoxy, Personal
Tagged holy day, jewish men, lending a hand, middle aged man, religious jews, shabbos
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Molesting Girls
I was crashing with this girl a few years ago. I was being all honorable and just trying to get to sleep when she said to me, "Why aren’t you trying to molest me?" She was hurt that I hadn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Dating, Orthodoxy, Sex
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The New Shiksa Menace
Chaim Amalek emails: "We all know about the Shiksa Menace, V1.0 – the blonde with boobs and bearing who turned the heads of many a yid one or two generations removed from the shtetl, and who continues to lure Jewish … Continue reading
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Tagged asian women, jewish men, shtetl, two generations, yellow peril, yid
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Sabra Love
Orit Arfa writes this singles column for the May 15, 2008 issue (Yom Ha’atzmaut) of the Jewish Journal. Here’s an excerpt: I’ve been considering giving up on Israeli men, at least the purebred Israeli men, the sabras. When I first … Continue reading
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Orthodox Judaism’s Conversion Controversy
To quote Toby Katz, commenting on Cross-Currents: The RCA is upset because so many RCA rabbis have done conversions that they never should have done — converting women who had no intention of ever keeping mitzvos, just so they could … Continue reading
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Jewish Code Of Silence Complicates Probe Into Jewish-On-Goyish Crown Heights Attack
From the New York Daily News: Long before the first rapper stopped snitching or any Mafiosi swore an oath of omertà, there was the Jewish law of mesira. The tenet that forbids Jews from informing on fellow Jews is one … Continue reading
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