12/28/06

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A likhtikn ganeydn zol er hobn* Itche Goldberg dead at 102. Even non-leftists (or non-socialist liberals like me) should mourn Reb Itche, o...
12/25/06

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The Great Charedi Smoke-Out Cheers to Toldos Aharon ! I read here (via Yiddish Wikipedia ) that the present rebbe of the Toldos Aharon sect...
12/23/06

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Mass solemnization Or: liturgy on deadline. It turned out that this Shabbos (when I wasn't working) happened to be the day when our shul...

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Super Jewish Historical Prediction Game Anybody can play. And everybody wins! I. circa 1980 Cathy Conservative: Women should read from the ...
12/17/06

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Hospital performance Does it make a difference? Maybe you know that you can now compare hospitals with regard to a number of "performa...
12/7/06

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Conservosexuality NextGen Where halachah meets the road. It will be interesting to see what the rabbi of our liberal-but-observant Conservat...
12/6/06

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Gay gezunt A brief note about Rabbi Roth. The decision of the Conservative movement's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards to approv...
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12/5/06

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Imperfection and medicine Or: You don't look well. Here's a suggestion about one thing that makes being a doctor different from oth...
11/26/06

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Rejoice like a hero running the basepaths In a previous post I wondered how you say "home run" in Hebrew. Now I know how to say t...
11/25/06

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Verbal gymnastics at the Forward Maybe it's just me, but the title of this article reads like an attempt at an anagram or a palindrome....
11/16/06

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Listen! Miryem-Khaye Seigel has such a voice, I can only think our generation must be doing something right. She writes great Yiddish songs...

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Defining the WikiJew The ethnoreligious identity that anyone can edit: an article of mine in this week's Forward . Who is a Jew? Let’s...
11/14/06

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Annals of theocracy: special Jerusalem riots edition Condemnation please? It is probably too much to ask that Stateside religious Zionists ...
11/13/06

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"Finish my pants!" "It's the New Yorker on the phone." Tragedy, poetry, and Brooks Brothers. For anyone who would l...
11/12/06

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How many people aged 20 to 39 do you talk to in a week? Random epidemiology table . Some authors from the Netherlands tried to improve estim...

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Why diagnose? Just Google .
11/10/06

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"You forbid!" A few words about חלילה. Abraham argues with God over the matter of Sodom and Gomorrah, and he says (Genesis 18:25):...
11/7/06

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Yesh Tiqwa Goodbye, Bene Beraq. Why have the highway signs in Israel, until recently, featured strange transliterations of Hebrew place name...
11/5/06

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Momentous events Details later. At least on point 3. Gobo has kosher wine! I got Fishbane's book (a few years old) on Biblical and rab...
10/27/06

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Running language lightly over the s ensorium One fun poet out of three - not bad. This week's Reading Between A and B made less of an i...