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Posted in Beliefs on March 19th, 2010 
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A few days after my mother died I called T-mobile to cancel her line and to have the family plan moved over to my father’s account. The person I spoke with at T-mobile told me that my mother had to be the one to close and transfer the account. I explained that my mother had […]
Posted in Practices, History, Beliefs on March 12th, 2010 No Comments »
“Show respect to an old man who has forgotten his learning through no fault of his own, for we have learned that the fragments of the old tablets [of the Ten Commandments which Moses shattered] were kept alongside the new tablets in the Ark of the Covenant.”
–Babylonian Talmud, Berakhot 8b
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Posted in Beliefs, Life on March 5th, 2010 No Comments »
“Racism is man’s gravest threat to man - the maximum hatred for a minimum reason.”
–Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Posted in Beliefs on February 23rd, 2010 No Comments »
Here’s my entry in the 28 Days, 28 Ideas series. The article — Idea #23 — was written for Jewcy.com, which has been having some technical difficulties, so I figured I’d post the whole shebang here, as well.
Over the last several years, I have read dozens of articles and listened to scores of conversations about […]
Posted in Beliefs, Life on January 29th, 2010 No Comments »
Aliza Hausman just posted a great video by Ma Nishtana about mythbusting that whole Jews have sex through a hole in the sheet thing. It’s kind of awesome.
Alternately, you can watch the Jew in the City’s answer, though I find it significantly less satisfying:
Or you can check out my own explanation, from my days at […]
Posted in Beliefs on January 29th, 2010 1 Comment »
This is what the Holy One said to Israel: My children, what do I seek from you? I seek no more than that you love one another and honor one another. –Tanna d’Bai Eliyahu
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Posted in Beliefs on January 29th, 2010 No Comments »
In her last posts, Melissa Broder conducted a “Jewish vs. Goyish litmus test” for the year in review, shared the B-Sides of her forthcoming When You Say One Thing But Mean Your Mother (Feb. 6), and imagined being in Hebrew School with John Stewart, Bob Dylan, and Rahm Emanuel, and wrote her pen pal, Esther […]
Posted in Beliefs on January 22nd, 2010 No Comments »
Just as you are commanded to say something that will be obeyed, you are commanded not to say anything when you know you will not be obeyed. –Babylonian Talmud, Yevamot 65b
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Posted in Beliefs on January 22nd, 2010 No Comments »
When we last saw Todd & God, they were throwing down some cool house tunes while putting up a mezuzah. But if you thought that was the last you saw of that crazy odd couple, you were wrong. Dead wrong.
In this episode of Todd & God, God appears before Todd in the form of former […]
Posted in Beliefs on January 20th, 2010 No Comments »
Last week, we featured two posts by author Rebecca Goldstein (found here and here). Goldstein’s new novel, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction, has sparked a lot of debate about atheism, people who identify as both Jewish and atheist, and the overall importance (or lack their of) of wondering if […]
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