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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
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Questions For Dating Columnist Tamara Shayne Kagel
Tamara is a 20-something third year law student. She writes a dating blog for the Jewish Journal called Tattletales. Here are the highlights or watch the whole thing below. Dennis Wilen: And there arose over the Jewish Journal dating column … Continue reading
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First, Craigslist Came For The Prostitutes
And I remained silent. I was not a prostitute.. When Craigslist came for the hate speech, I remained silent; I wasn’t a hater. Then Craigslist flagged and removed my posting in Gigs for “Wanted: “Hot Chix For Torah Talk!” There … Continue reading
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Tagged blokes, craigslist, hate speech, hot chicks, hot chix, lukeisback
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I Want To Study Torah With Hot Chicks
On Torah Talk, we answer the goy Casey’s ten questions about God, we get a review of my memoir “XXX-Communicated: A Rebel Without A Shul” from the holy Rabbi Rabbs and we discuss this week’s Torah portion. I do a … Continue reading
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Facebook & MySpace As A Time Suck
I’ve only found social networking media a timesuck in two cases. One, in the case of Tagged.com, because I inadvertently allowed it to spam my entire lukeisback at gmail correspondents and I got a lot of confused and concerned friends … Continue reading
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