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Can You Teach Alexander Technique Via Skype?
I did a radio interview last week with Debi Dali in Dallas. She asked if I taught Alexander Technique via Skype. So far, I do not, but many leading Alexander teachers do, including Robert Rickover, Mark Josefberg and Sharon Jakubecy. … Continue reading
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Tagged alexander teachers, Alexander Technique, mile radius, new frontier, robert rickover, york times reports
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The Jewish Indiana Jones Turns Out To Be A Fraud
This story is getting a lot of play around the Jewish world. The New York Times reports: He described himself as a risk-taking rabbi who had been “beaten up, thrown in jail and gone $175,000 into debt” on “expeditions” to … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Rabbis
Tagged bergen belsen, concentration camps, private school tuition, rabbi menachem, torahs, york times reports
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Homeowners In Distress Get A Break
I fail to be heartbroken that millions of Americans bought more home than they could afford and that they are now struggling to stay in it. Why should I care about people’s bad financial decisions? Why is the decision to … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Real Estate
Tagged bad decision, bad decisions, financial decisions, price declines, repossessed houses, york times reports
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Eating Disorders Among Orthodox Jews
The New York Times reports: In the large and growing Orthodox Jewish communities around New York and elsewhere, rabbinic leaders are sounding an alarm about an unexpected problem: a wave of anorexia and other eating disorders among teenage girls. While … Continue reading
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Tagged orthodox jewish congregations, orthodox jews, preferred answer, rabbinic leaders, union of orthodox jewish congregations, york times reports
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Wikipedia Assault On Journalist Steven I. Weiss
There’s a Wikipedia user (Kalonymous) who only makes positive changes to Professor Samuel Heilman‘s Wikipedia entry and negative changes to Steven I. Weiss‘s entry. Kalonymous wrote on Steven I. Weiss‘s Wikipedia entry: “He also runs the blog The Canonist, known … Continue reading
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Tagged cable television network, journalistic accuracy, lurid details, professor samuel heilman, public intellectuals, york times reports
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Fort Hood Murderer Was A Muslim
The New York Times reports: WASHINGTON — Born and reared in Virginia, the son of immigrant parents from a small Palestinian town near Jerusalem, he joined the Army right out of high school, against his parents’ wishes. The Army, in … Continue reading
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Orthodox Jews Vs. Child Abuse
The New York Times reports: For decades, prosecutors in Brooklyn routinely pursued child molesters from every major ethnic and religious segment of the borough’s diverse population. Except one. Of some 700 child sexual abuse cases brought in an average year, … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Blogging, Orthodoxy
Tagged camp counselors, child sexual abuse, gil student, orthodox jewish community, rabbi pinchas, sexual abuse cases, ultra orthodox jews, york times reports
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Lonely Hasidic Men
Where will they find solace? Will the Torah be enough? The New York Times reports: In July and August, many families there head for bungalow colonies in the Catskills, leaving behind men who work all week and reunite with their … Continue reading
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Tagged borough park, bungalow colonies, lively family, rabbi shlomo, weekday nights, york times reports
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Investigating Sex Research
The New York Times reports: BONK The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex By Mary Roach Illustrated. 319 pp. W.W. Norton & Company. $24.95. Related ‘Bonk,’ by Mary Roach: Sexual Advances (March 30, 2008) Janet Maslin writes: Readers of Mary … Continue reading
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Tagged amp company, clinical interest, guinea pig, introductory chapter, investigating sex, janet maslin, mary roach, moonlights, proclivities, rhetorical question, rsquo, sex research, sex researchers, sexual advances, sicko, stage of life, vaginal fluids, wisecrack, word title, york times reports
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Bring Out The Tam Tams
Oy, those crazy Jews! The New York Times reports: What will you do in the great Tam Tam shortage of 2008? It’s true, the unleavened, bite-sized matzo cracker has nearly disappeared from shelves across the country, leaving Jews anguished as … Continue reading
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