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8 April 2008
Combating Anti-Semitism
I was walking home for shul this Shabbos when a Lexus came to a stop about twenty feet away from me. Two kids, no more than seventeen, sat in the front of the car. As I walked by they rolled down their window and began to yell a series of anti-Semitic things at me. [...]
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4 April 2008
Re: Kippot At Job Interviews
I was going to write this as a comment to an earlier post by Lavie Margolin, “I regularly wear a Kippah. Somebody told me not to wear it on an interview. What should I do?” It got a little long and in-depth, so I thought I’d post it on its own. Here it [...]
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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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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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13 March 2008
Lord, Get Me High?
An Israeli psychologist believes that Moses and the Israelites were high on psychedelic drugs at the Sinai revelation:
“As far Moses on Mount Sinai is concerned, it was either a supernatural cosmic event, which I don’t believe, or a legend, which I don’t believe either, or finally, and this is very probable, an event that [...]
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4 March 2008
The Art of War
“All warfare is based on deception. Hence when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near. Hold out bait to entice the enemy. [...]
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4 March 2008
The Israeli “Limpieza de Sangre,” or, Are You Jewish Enough to Read This?
What is a Jew? And why does it matter?
The number one article emailed over the last day from the NY Times is a piece from the magazine entitled “How Do You Prove You’re a Jew?” written by Gershom Gorenberg.
Intrigued by the title, I read on. If you have not yet read this article, I highly [...]
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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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27 February 2008
The Sound of Silence, Jewish-Style
There is nothing more filled with sound than quiet. It is both fascinating and frightening to listen to the cacophony of my internal sounds. After all, who knows what I might hear.
My personal, layman’s, approach to quiet has always been to make so much external noise that I can’t hear the sounds from within. This [...]
