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Tag Archives: jewish women
Tales From Jewish Dating Hell
Dating is the one thing you get worse at the more you do of it. I came to Los Angeles at age 27. I went to 20-something evenings at Aish Ha Torah. Then I started going to 30-somethings. What a … Continue reading
Posted in Dating, Personal
Tagged aish, family friends, jewish women, shanda, Torah, younger women
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I Want To Study Torah With Jewish Women
I do Torah Talks with my friends on my live cam for people around the world. I videotape them and place them on my youtube channel (youtube.com/lukeisback) and my blog (Lukeford.net), but 90% of the time, I find myself conducting … Continue reading
Posted in Torah
Tagged jewish women, lukeisback, male friends, weekly torah portion, youtube
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Abortion
“Every woman I know has had one,” a secular Jewess said to me today. “It’s just something that a woman goes through. All of my mother’s friends. None of them wanted one.” In my experience Jewish women feel a lot … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged christian sisters, ethical monotheism, jewess, jewish women, pre marital sex
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Who By Fire
I’m enjoying this new novel by Diana Spechler. Was Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach the epitome of Jewish love? I always thought so until the past few years. From Diana’s new book: A wise Jew says: "And it’s not your fault you … Continue reading
Posted in Jewish Literature
Tagged jewish girls, jewish women, new novel, nineteen years, penitents, yosi
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Penises Don’t Lie
From my live cam chat: guest26: Chaim A.’s best line: Penises don’t lie…classic and so true guest26: especially those in tightie whities User ChaimAmalek entered the room. guest26: speaking of the devil ChaimAmalek: Jews are so often into antisocial perversions … Continue reading
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Tagged goyim, jewess, jewish woman, jewish women, kishke, live cam chat
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Women Wearing Pants
I prefer life when men act like men and women like women (and wear skirts). Religious Jewish women wear skirts and those who wear pants are not being religious in that respect. Hirhurim writes: R. Shmuel Katz, Kedoshim Tihyu, ch. … Continue reading
Posted in Orthodoxy
Tagged ch 8, cold women, Hirhurim, jewish women, kedoshim, shmuel katz
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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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The Burka Lady Of Beit Shemesh
The guy circled is the son-in-law of the Burka lady of Beit Shemesh. From the Jerusalem Post March 27, 2008: A fringe sect of Jewish women with a Taliban-like dress code will be overcome by a major spiritual crisis after … Continue reading
Posted in Beit Shemesh, Burka
Tagged Beit Shemesh, child abuse, dress code, eda, food diet, health food, insane behavior, jerusalem post, jewish women, muslim sects, old mother, Orthodoxy, police investigator, quot quot, religious groups, safed, sect, spiritual crisis, tailspin, those women
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