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Tag Archives: men and women
An Entertainment Subgenre
Chaim Amalek emails: I know this no longer is Luke’s area, but there must be a market for shomer negia videos, in which women try to tempt men into touching them and the men steadfastly refuse, but are instead content … Continue reading
Posted in Orthodoxy
Tagged amalek, drugs and booze, easy virtue, female presence, hot models, men and women, merits, subculture, wannabe model
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I Want To Learn How To Tell My Story
I saw a flyer yesterday for a ten-week workshop for low-income men and women to tell their stories. These poor buggers would learn about writing it up and delivering it in public. I thought this could help me overcome my … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged female attention, halachic, Kashrut, men and women, poor buggers, poster boy, shyness, surliest
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Why Are Women More Liberal Than Men?
On his radio show Oct. 29, Dennis said that a woman’s tendency is "to think more in terms of the micro than the macro, the personal, the individual, rather than the broad social questions… There’s a study about men and … Continue reading
Posted in Dennis Prager
Tagged car crash, men and women, radio show, social questions, tendency
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‘Why Didn’t He Molest Me?’
In my capacity as a moral leader, I have to counsel a lot of hurt and confused men and women dealing with the hard knocks that life delivers. Sometimes their pain comes from their rabbi being accused of molestation. "I … Continue reading
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Tagged hard knocks, men and women, moral leader, quot, rabbi, shame
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You Are Not Jewish II
From the May 5 Haaretz: Asher Maoz writes: These are painful statements, but they must be said loud and clear: Two peoples live in this land, both Jewish – they and we. They are the ultra-Orthodox, who see themselves as … Continue reading
Posted in Conversion, Orthodoxy
Tagged asher, conscience, emissaries, family trees, goodwill, haaretz, hush money, investigative committee, jewish state, Judaism, laws of moses, maoz, men and women, one people, status quo, two peoples, whims, willingness, yeshivas, young men
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