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My last smicha students week
July 4, 2010With friends on Friday evening. My last smicha students’ week as an ALEPH rabbinic student has ended. There were some amazing moments. Sweetest of all has been seeing my friends and teachers again; I missed them all desperately in January, and it’s been a long year since we were together last! It was also incredible [...]
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The occupation in a nutshell
July 3, 2010Take a few minutes to hear the story of Adeeb Abu Rahma of Bil’in. It’s not part of the big diplomatic news like the Obama-Netanyahu meeting this week, but in a sense, it’s more important. Far from being unique, this case captures most of what there is to know about the current stage of the [...]
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PunkJews Get Their 15 Minutes
June 16, 2010I’m re-posting another of my Jewish Week articles this week because the Jewlicious audience would definitely be interested in this new venture, called “PunkJews.” Really eclectic group of New York hipster Jews producing a documentary about their artistic endeavors combined with their spirituality. ‘
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Obama’s slippery spill speech
June 3, 2010The drama continues in the oil-fraught shores of the Gulf Coast, where a completely inept federal response from the White House now has critics on both the left and the right labeling this disaster as Obama’s Katrina. Last week, after nearly a month of finger pointing and BP browbeating, the Obama administration resorted to their [...]
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Pumping Iron for the Payes Set
May 23, 2010I need to re-post my Jewish Week article from this past week, which is yet another exploration into the ostensibly odd ways that haredim and hipsters are coming together over exercise in the Bushwick-Williamsburg area. Finally, at long last, it seems that Brooklyn’s ultra-ultra-Orthodox community is taking a serious interest in working out and keeping [...]
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Gold, Logos, KaganWatch, Over-Easy and more
May 14, 2010I never know what new things I will learn each week, and this past one was quite interesting. On Yom Yerusalayim this week, I thought of the golden city, and I am sure numerous Israelis played Naomi Shemer’s Jerusalem of Gold song, a piece that she quickly wrote for a vote counting interlude at the [...]
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Constructive Solutions to where the middos have gone…
May 13, 2010Last week the Jewish Press ran an article titled “Where Have All Our Middos Gone?” The article has generated some buzz and this week the Jewish Press printed a fantastic letter to the editor written by R Micha Berger.The letter can be found here, by scrolling down the page or you can just read this: [...]
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Newz Tidbitz
April 30, 2010As another week comes to a close, we glean the news for timbits of interest. The most urgent story of the week comes from Reuters and The Jakarta Globe. The Chief of Police for Papua announced a policy that the police will reject applicants who have undergone penis enlargements. Certain Papuan [...]
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The Jewish Picasso Of Tremont
April 21, 2010I’m re-posting my front-page Jewish Week article from this week, about a ridiculously interesting Bronx relic — and his works of art. This is an entirely unknown museum that’s entirely worth visiting, despite the sketchy walk to and from either the Tremont or Burnside Ave. subway stations. In retrospect, I should’ve shelled out the few [...]
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Another mother poem (for Read Write Prompt #119)
March 25, 2010FIRST NIGHT IN BUENOS AIRES Old political cartoons punctuate the pink walls. Our waiter wears black tie, brings out dish after dish: steaks the size of dinner plates and homemade noodles and lettuce with vinegar, sweet onion on the side. We cap the day with bright limoncello and a wobbly walk on cobblestones like Europe, [...]
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Unrebooted Jerusalem Shabbat
March 20, 2010This is the right week to have photos of Jerusalem, isn’t it? These are from Antohinson’s Flickr pages. This is a three part post. 1. This was a hard week for Israel, but I think it came out of it okay there are harder weeks to come. The relationship with Obama’s administration in the US [...]
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The Curse That Rocked Great Neck
March 11, 2010Today I’m reposting my Jewish Week story for this week, because it is perhaps one of the craziest stories I have ever written. Enjoy, and feel free to leave comments below. The Curse That Rocked Great Neck Rabbi Mordechai Aderet: Party crasher frightens guests. Like biblical plagues raining down on them from an angry God, [...]
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Psychology Nuts
February 26, 2010As if it weren’t difficult enough to determine absolute cause for human criminal deeds, the field has now been extended to animals. Investigations are under way to decide whether Tilly, the killer whale who drowned his trainer in Florida this week, committed a homicide or involuntary manslaughter. (please note the word laughter in the [...]
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Elie Wiesel Cant Have it Both Ways
February 11, 2010Elie Wiesel has long walked the tightrope between pious pronouncements of universal Jewish conscience and unabashed political advocacy. He’s been trying to have it both ways for years, but it seems to me that his balancing act is becoming more and more transparent. Last week, as Wiesel unveiled an anti-Ahmadinejad ad with other Nobel Prize [...]