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My facebook wall rocks

When you have 5,000 friends on Facebook you have a lot of power, almost every link I post gets clicked numerous times and I can be assured that status updates will create some great discussion and hilarious comments. Every once in a while I post that “I can use any ideas for posts or videos” these are usually at times ...

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My car was broken into over shabbos and my two bikes were stolen

I had a dream last night that my car was stolen, so imagine my surprise when I went to get my car from shul tonight and found the rear window smashed and two of my bicycles gone. My first thought was that this week one of the best on record and that I hadn’t been able to show enough appreciation ...

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My Brother’s Big Fat Secular Wedding

We had asked our rabbi if we were even allowed to attend, and he told us since there is an assumption that Jewish weddings on the whole are at least kosher style that we were permitted to go but that, of course, we shouldn’t eat anything. I was relieved since I knew that telling my family, my mother in particular, ...

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My All Time Jewish Basketball Team

I’m surprised this hasn’t gotten more attention, but on the Tablet Magazine website (a project of Nextbook) basketball fans are able to create their own starting lineup among the best Jewish-American Basketball players of all time. Tablet teamed up with FreeDarko, “the amazing five-year-old collective of basketball writers known for its wit, one-of-a-kind drawings, and revealing focus on unorthodox statistics, ...

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Must sexism and anti-Semitism be “either – or?”

As I embark on my final days of high school, I am working feverishly hard (well, let’s face it – senioritis makes me say I’m going to do so) on my senior project. My project, a collection of interviews with New York Jewish women on the intersection of Judaism and feminism (how appropriate!), is an exploration of how personal identity ...

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Musings of A Wannabe Alterkocker, Part Deux*

*Here’s Part One. Knock yourself out. Just don’t wake me up from my nap.I know I must be old because Twitter gives me diarrhea.I know all the young people in the Middle East and Europe are starting revolutions 140 characters at a time, but all the tiny tweets and mysterious followers and crippled English and manic self-promotion and those people ...

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Mr Met is Now Rabbi Met

A Brooklyn judge has ruled that the kosher hot dog stands at Citi Field, home of the New York Mets, can be open on Shabbat. But it’s not what you think. This isn’t the Mets forcing the stand to be open on Shabbat. It, in fact, is the exact opposite. The Mets must have been worried that they would lose ...

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Moving Beyond Denominational Differences?

I began teaching a Melton Scholars Series course this past Wednesday evening. The 10-week course, “Jewish Denominations: Addressing the Challenges of Modernity,” deals with the history of the formation of the modern denominations of American Judaism. I began the first session with a quote by Rabbi Yitz Greenberg: “It doesn’t matter which denomination you affiliate with, so long as you’re ...

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Mourning’s End – Understanding Sefira and Lag B’Omer

The Torah’s HonorThe untimely demise of a Torah giant impacts every Jew, leaving a deep feeling of loss. If two Torah leaders died on one day (G-d forbid), the tragedy would be immense. We cannot even fathom how we would feel if the number was ten, fifty, or a hundred. In this light, we can begin to grasp the devastation ...

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Mourning the Living On Tisha B’Av

A few years ago I was a campus Rabbi for the Jewish Awareness Movement at USC. One of my primary responsibilities was to lead large groups of Jewish college students on inspiring trips to Israel. Of course, the personal inspiration for me, was very often, greater than the inspiration for some of the students.Read More: @ frumsatire.netYou might also like: Answering Peter ...

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Mourning My Arab Spring

What is going to happen to the Arab Spring – no, not that Arab Spring but my own recent awakening and love affair with the Middle East?I have been gripped by fear since January, watching the uprisings, not knowing how these movements would all shake out, unable to get my arms around them. Lately, fear has been replaced by sadness and melancholy. I feel ...

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Mourdock, Menses, and Breasts

Here We Go Again. Add Mourdock to the Akin mixology, shake, and serve on the rocks. Read the article in The Washington Post and hear his words, spoken in the moment.Picture This: Is the exploitation and sexualization of girls in the media another form of trafficking? Trafficking to the living room coffee table? Or could this be, in some altered sense, a form of ...

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