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Is Rick Santorum an Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Jew?

No, not yet. Rick Santorum is not an Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jew. He is not Jewish. He is an American Catholic politician. A political analyst for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz has a biting (a bit tongue-in-cheek) take on Santorum’s mix of religion and politics. The battle over contraception and other ‘culture wars’ now raging in American presidential politics can make an ...

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Is Sam Horowitz’ Bar Mitzvah Dance Video Kosher?

Sam Horowitz performed a dance at the Omni Hotel in Dallas to celebrate his bar mitzvah. Sam danced on stage in November 2012 with eight (visibly taller) women dancers in a number that lasted less than three minutes where he appears on stage about halfway through. As of 8/18/2013 the video has received 726,000 views on YouTube. I think that ...

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Is Google NOW Incredible or Creepy? Is NOW Kosher?

There sometimes is a fine line between incredible and creepy.The Times hints at this in a review of phone app technology that seems to know what you are thinking, especially Google NOW. Case in point. Yesterday I had to go from Teaneck, NJ to Forest Hills Queens, NY to attend the funeral for my sister’s father-in-law. Knowing the possible traffic ...

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Is Google Glass Jewish?

Even though the last name Glass is often associated with Jews, no, Google Glass is not Jewish. Google Glass is a shiny piece of technology and as such does not have a personal religious affiliation. But the fine folk at Rusty Brick software are busy at work developing JewGlass – apps for Jews who use Google Glass – to make ...

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Hug a Heretic Today

Writing in Fortune Magazine, Polly LaBarre explains, “Why you should embrace your company’s heretics. We find this article noteworthy for two reasons. First, we learn that management consultants can use religious terminology and concepts to speak lucidly about organizational behavior and corporate life. Second, we start to think that perhaps what is good for a commercial corporation may be good for ...

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Google Keep Kosher?

Keep Kosher? Yes we think that Google’s newest service called “Keep” is glatt Kosher. It’s a keeper. Here is what Google says about Keep: Quickly capture what’s on your mind and recall it easily wherever you are. Create a checklist, enter a voice note or snap a photo and annotate it. Everything you add is instantly available on all your ...

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Female Panic

You’re a holy yeshiva bochur, you’ve gone 3 days without seeing a woman, now you have to go to CVS for some narishkeiten, what do you do? The life of a yeshiva bochur revolves around controlling thoughts that lead to illegal erections. A quality yeshiva bochur will do everything he can to not see or think of any woman so ...

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Facebook Doesn’t Have “Shidduch Requests” for a Reason

“Hi there” Shalom — notice how this is the first conversation I have ever had with this person on Facebook, and mind you, the last time I saw this person panim el panim was probably 6 years ago, and I think that conversation consisted of various ‘hello’ synonyms. “Just putting out the word that we are looking for a shidduch ...

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Elul Already?

This new moon brought more than the end of Ramadan and a little PMS: It marks the beginning of Elul, the last month of the Hebrew year before we repent and do it all over again. Some Eluls I get really hairshirt-y about it and list an alphabet of sins I’ve committed over the past year, but I think I’ve ...

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Dr. Judith Rosenbaum Talks Living the Legacy with Jewschool

This fall, the Jewish Women’s Archive released its latest online curriculum in the Living the Legacy series, a Jewish social justice education project that uses primary sources to explore the role of Jews in the Civil Rights Movement, and now, in the Labor Movement. Chanel Dubofsky interviews Dr. Judith Rosenbaum, JWA’s Director of Public History. Q: Give us a glimpse ...

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Do Not Interrupt Lil’ Dicky’s Jewish Flow

Thank you, Jewlicious, for giving me something to smirk about on this ever-so-gloomy Monday: Lil Dicky‘s epic rap battle with Hitler. (For you sensitive types, please be warned that “Jewish Flow” contains egregious use of Nazi symbolism, prolific drug use via a gas mask bong and many instances of the word “vagina” to make a feminist cringe.) What do y’all ...

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Divorce from a Jewish Perspective

As a Man floating in the purgatory between married and single, I am torn.  I am torn between many things.  Between forgiveness and judgment, between sacrifice and greed but mostly between right and wrong.  But mostly I am lost.  There is so much buzz about shidduch crisis yet almost none about the divorce crisis, the infidelity crisis.   The lack of ...

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