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Tag Archives: Truth
Why Do I Have My Live Cam On All The Time?
It is to stop myself from watching porn. Yeah, I’m a bit of a hound dog. I wish it wasn’t true, but Rabbi Union, as always, is right about me. I wish I could say I have my live cam … Continue reading
Rabbi Jack Sparks Finds A New Home
A few years ago, he was arrested for child endangerment. Now he is the rabbi at Temple Hatikvah in Florida. A source emails: That once again Rabbi Jack Sparks has found employment at, it is sad that there are people … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse
Tagged child endangerment, hatikvah, rabbi, Truth
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I Interview Solomon Schimmel About His New Book,
Listen to the whole thing here.
Posted in Torah
Tagged fear, fundamentalism, Solomon Schimmel, tenacity, Truth
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Don’t Take Revenge
I’m studying Sefer HaChinuch — a 14th Century working enumerating all the mitzvas in the Torah — with a rabbi. Today we studied the mitzva of not taking revenge. If someone does something bad to me, I want to hurt … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Torah
Tagged 14th century, bad luck, blog, Dennis Prager, drunk driver, heaven, Judaism, mitzva, moral boundaries, peace, rabbi, rage, taking revenge, Torah, Truth, vengeance
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What If It’s Not Them?
What if my problems in Orthodox Judaism are not their fault? What if it’s not Orthodox Judaism nor its rabbis nor its practitioners that have caused me so much trouble, but only myself? What if I gave the Orthodox community … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged creep, exile, foibles, holiness, individual rights, jewish community, margins, orthodox community, orthodox judaism, Rabbis, Relationships, shul, sunny jim, Torah, tradition, Truth, wise father
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OMG It’s Jesus!!!
That’s the most common greeting I get these days in my chat room. I find it disconcerting. Here are the other greetings I receive in the order of their popularity: Ur ugly Grizzly Adams! Hey Fuzzy Wuzzy U need a … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged chat room, common greeting, fuzzy wuzzy, greetings, grizzly adams, hook up, hospice, jesus, nbsp, popularity, presence, tefillin, translation, Truth, waves
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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
Posted in Conversion
Tagged contrary, conversion controversy, conversion to judaism, conversions, converts, converts to judaism, cross currents, fallout, friendship, halachic, i don t care, intention, jewish men, jewish women, Jews, judgments, katz, million things, nuts, orthodox judaism, personal tragedies, press release, quotes, Rabbis, RCA, religious life, shortcomings, streams, taking sides, Truth
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Aish.com Hacked Again
Much of Friday, Aish.com hung up a notice that it was undergoing routine maintenance. Today they told the truth: Aish.com has been maliciously attacked by a group from China. Our servers are undergoing extensive anti-hacking, filtering and monitoring upgrades. When … Continue reading
Posted in Aish HaTorah
Tagged aish, amp, China, God, Israel, prayers, routine maintenance, security upgrades, servers, Truth
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What’s With My Bigotry?
Because it’s fun! Joe emails: I stumbled across your ‘blog’ quite accidentally today and was struck by a few things. First, that this blog is a lot less ‘porn’ oriented than your past writings. That’s likely to be a good … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged approach avoidance, asides, bigotry, blog, full measure, insightful conclusions, intellect, intellectual exercise, jewish community, Journalism, moral view, motives, nbsp, relationship, right wing, subject matter, Truth, undercurrent
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Aish.com Hacked
FailedMessiah reports: It seems Aish.com was hacked over Passover. At 12:30 AM CDT Tuesday, it is still down. I was forwarded a message from an Aish subscriber that reads as follows: The Bank of Israel was also hacked over Passover … Continue reading
Posted in Aish HaTorah
Tagged bank of israel, cdt, hat tip, instrumental value, islamic jihad, Israel, Judaism, Passover, routine maintenance, subscriber, Truth
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