Jewneric: A New Platform for the Jewish Voice Archives: March 2008
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30 March 2008
The White Elephant in My Room: My Stutter
I stutter. But I am not a stutterer.
It does not define me; rather it complements me.
Through the course of history, individuals who stutter have entered into all realms of life. In a religious sense, Moses stuttered. Yet so did Marilyn Monroe. As did James Earl Jones (“This is AT&T”), Isaac Newton, Winston Churchill, and [...]
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28 March 2008
Giving Jewishly
In September I started my position as Donor Relations Representative at the Jewish Communal Fund. What is the JCF, you may ask? I certainly did when I first arrived. However, in the six months since I started, I have learned much about the way the Jewish community is funded, how people give, [...]
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27 March 2008
An Obama Bloomberg Ticket?
This morning, the Huffington Post wrote a buzz article about the possibility of an Obama Bloomberg ticket. Mayor Bloomberg would bring his strong business sense and international experience to the table, while his just being a Jew, and his strong Israel support, would quell fears that Obama might be anti-Israel.
Bloomberg’s grassroots Mayors-Across-America political movement, [...]
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26 March 2008
Simple Goodness
Several years ago, a collection of Jews from Chicago got together to deal with hatred run amok. They formed two groups which they ironically named “One Groups.” The purpose of these groups was to help its members develop doable, individual projects that would heal rifts and build bridges.
The first meetings were charged with energy. [...]
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25 March 2008
An Inconvenient Truth: “Going Green” May Be Hazardous to Your Health (And to the Environment)
Bought into all the global warming hysteria? If you’re one of the millions of Americans who’ve been sold on the alarmist propaganda of Al Gore’s glorified Powerpoint presentation, you may be wondering what you can do to “Go Green” and save the environment. Luckily for you, there are entire industries just waiting to [...]
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25 March 2008
Brain Death in Jewish Law: Setting the Record Straight
In the March 25, 2008 article “MK: Hundreds of organ transplants may lose funding,” the Jerusalem Post got their research on Brain Death in Halacha wrong. They misquoted the opinion of Rav Moshe Feinstein. Here’s what they said:
… (Rav) Elyashiv has also ruled in the past that brain death does not constitute clinical [...]
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25 March 2008
Almost Snuck Past You!
In case his name didn’t give it away, now you know: Josh Radnor is Jewish.
Profiled in The Forward on March 12, Radnor reveals that he grew up in Bexley, Ohio, and attended the Columbus Torah Academy through the 8th grade. He also spent a year in Israel in 1997, studying on the Livnot U’Lehibanot program.
“Wait, [...]
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22 March 2008
Lessons from the Megilah
Whenever I get to read a piece of the Tanach, the Old Testament, there is always this sense of understanding, a correlation of the ancient words to the here and now of today’s Jewish existence.
Listening to the Rabbi reading the Megilah, the story of Esther, Mordechai, Haman and the rest of the clan, the [...]
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20 March 2008
Rabbis’ New Role: Wedding Crashers
While those in the Internet reading community may not be aware, Brooklyn rabbis have recently banned marriage. I went undercover to find the story, and I now present my first piece of investigative journalism.
Rabbis Ban Marriage: Cite Promiscuity as Reason
Yet Another Jewneric Exclusive by staff writer, David Gertler
A group of 178 of Ultra-Orthodox rabbis [...]
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20 March 2008
LIVE FEED of Sderot Rally 5PM EST
SDEROT RALLY LIVE FEED - 5 PM EST
We wanted to let everyone in the Jewneric family know about our involvement with the Worldwide Sderot Solidarity Rally this afternoon AT 5 PM EST.
In less than an hour, you can log onto http://jewneric.com/rally to watch the LIVE FEED of the rally.
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