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24 June 2008
Candy Man
There was no one so frightening as the man who sat in the farthest back row of the synagogue. To most adults he was friendly and harmless, but we children knew better. We approached him with great care and trepidation. He never looked you straight in the eye, but he knew you were there. He [...]
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23 June 2008
To Err is Human, To Eruv is Jewish
For the past few weeks I’ve been reporting for the Long Island Jewish World. The big issue that I am covering is the newest eruv debate. You’ve heard the debates in all their various forms from other locations, and in most recent memory- the one originating from Tenafly, NJ. The new municipality [...]
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19 June 2008
My Advice: Buy Renter’s Insurance!
This past Friday night my wife and I experienced something that we hope no one else ever has to experience in their lives… fire. When we returned from our Shabbat dinner around the corner around 12AM, we saw 5 firetrucks surrounding our corner. My friends and neighbors quickly let us know that it was our [...]
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18 April 2008
The Chosen Keyboard
For a long time there have been only a few options if you wanted Hebrew on your keyboard. Your options were to spend two hours pasting stickers onto your keyboard like a 5 year old doing a bad Science Fair Project (cursing yourself repeatedly for getting every single sticker crooked), or to buy a keyboard [...]
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7 April 2008
Statistically Speaking…
Today I met a fascinating man. Well, that’s deceptive. He’s rather nondescript. His job sounds, and probably is, rather boring. He works with numbers, though not financially. He analyzes data, though nothing classified or secret.
He is Yeshiva University’s in-house statistician.
His job is to analyze data in using advanced statistical tools (I’ve been in a [...]
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19 March 2008
The Age of Apathy.
On Tuesday, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke in front of the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament). In the LA Times, the visit is described as “[stirring] traumatic memories. Six million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis during World War II, and about 250,000 elderly survivors live in Israel.”
After beginning her speech in Hebrew (albeit heavily [...]
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5 March 2008
Harvard University, Women-Only Gyms, and Anti-Religious Bigotry
Harvard University is in hot water over its decision to schedule women-only hours at one of its gyms to accommodate requests from women Muslim students whose religious beliefs prohibit them from working out in front of men in exercise wear.
Harvard has scheduled only six women-only hours per week out of the seventy hours the gym [...]
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27 February 2008
Illegal Questions to Ask: America vs. Israel
I live between two distinct cultures. One part of me lives in America. I consume American culture by the boatload, I try to keep abreast of the politics, economics, news, and mass media. In ideology I empathize most closely with an open democracy, in which religion does not have a part (while it has a [...]
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14 February 2008
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13 February 2008
What a Wonderful World It Could Be, or, My Way or the Highway
For several years, I have been involved in a radio show, going back to my days as YU radio station manager, called Dead Air. We discuss politics, religion, satire, movies, current events, and whatever else strikes our fancy. Despite our advancing age, the members of the Dead Air crew have consistently discussed and often predicted [...]