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Why Are So Many Gays And Jewish Women Telling Us How Proud And Confident They Feel In Their Sexuality?

I’ve never heard a heterosexual man say how proud and confident he is in his sexuality. I’ve never heard a white man say how proud he is to be white. These public pronouncements are extreme over-compensation for the shame much … Continue reading

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Thrashing Out Your Fantasies With Doreen Seidler-Feller

Here are my favorite sections of the Jewish Journal report on LimmudLA: …for three days and nights of Jews doing Jewish right. …But more than what you learn, LimmudLA is about with whom you learn: It offers a chance for … Continue reading

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Making ‘Em Squirm With The Big Shabbos Shuva Drasha

David Suissa writes: There are many unique quirks in the Orthodox tradition, but few that I love more than the late-afternoon sermon on Shabbat Shuva, the Shabbat that falls between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Here in Pico-Robertson, it’s the … Continue reading

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Fighting Child Protective Services

I found this new site fightcps.com and this post: Motzei Shabbos, September 13, 2008 Summary: I am Aviva Yehudit Bat Ya’akov, daughter of a Polish holocaust survivor. Despite financial and health challenges, I have raised my only child as a … Continue reading

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Ecstatic Jews, a messiah proclaimed, and the consequential divisions

From the Village Voice: Like many other young men in Crown Heights, Itzik Balulu studies the Talmud and other Jewish texts from early in the morning to well into the night. But you should see his ride. When he’s not … Continue reading

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