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8 April 2008
Knockin’ On Zimmerman’s Door
While my current employment in Jewish entertainment media has come up in my posts from time to time, I’ve never quite had enough gall to publish one of my playlists. I do so today on two counts. On the one hand, I know that if I had opened this up here, I would have [...]
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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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17 March 2008
Being a Heretic in MY Bible
Throughout the past couple of weeks, I’ve spoken sarcastically about how the mere act of thinking is considered by some to be heretical. It doesn’t matter what you think; if it is contrary to a group’s core beliefs, you are a heretic according to their understanding.
Of course, in your understanding, their ideas are probably [...]
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3 March 2008
Being a Heretic, or, How to Disagree With the Talmud
This is the third in a series of articles promoting the idea that people should feel free to come up with their own ways of interpreting biblical verses and Talmudic reasoning. Don’t feel limited just because you don’t have a fancy name like “the Ditz.”
-Daveed Yoel Tzvi
The 71 Sided Die - Why should you want [...]
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26 February 2008
Esther vs. Kermit: Is it Easy Being Green?
It’s not Easy Being Green
(Lyrics : Joe Raposo)
(sung by Kermit)
It’s not that easy bein’ green;
Having to spend each day the color of the leaves.
When I think it could be nicer being red, or
yellow or gold-
or something much more colorful like that.
It’s not easy being green
It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
And [...]
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18 February 2008
The 71 Sided Die
One idea that is thrown around in Jewish thought is that there are seventy different approaches to learning. “Shivim Panim Latorah” (Bemidbar Rabba 13:15). The phrase in its entirety is, “There are 70 faces to Torah; turn it over and turn it over for everything is found in it.”
This claim [...]
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31 January 2008
The 69 Lost Tribes
This is an open article. I am specifically not being all-inclusive. Please add your comments and knowledge on the issue. I invite the moderators to combine the comments into the original post.
Biblically, we are told of 70 nations that sprouted from the three sons of Noah. Throughout the generations nations have [...]
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16 January 2008
The One Thing
When I hear someone who expresses an opinion that is to one extreme or the other, I tend to roll my eyes and dismiss it. No matter how important an issue, if you see no room for the other point of view you’re probably being led by an emotional or psychological bias. This [...]
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31 December 2007
Life Ain’t Easy for a Man Named “Country”
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We all have those stories of people with funny names. I happen to know a Rabbi Jesus, a Mashiach Ben David and a lovable guy a year older than I whose legal first name is Doctor. I kid you not. We all also know people who have been given highly [...]