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confusion
The dream of a beautiful bat mitzvah — but whose dream would it fulfill?
When I look at my daughters, I see their faces as both azoy shayne and uruwashii, \”so beautiful\” in Yiddish and in Japanese.
Combining fact and fiction confuses peace event
I was not entirely comforted. I recalled a conservative propaganda movie about Islam warning people of taqiyya, the Muslim \”mitzvah\” of deception, in which militant Muslims put on a peaceful disguise for Westerners.
D-A-T-E is just a four-letter word
Because in today\’s modern world, a guy and a girl looking for love can make plans, rush home from work, wash extra carefully in certain areas, put on nice clothes, spend three hours in flirtatious conversation at the local sushi joint, say a warm good night and still come home wondering whether what they just experienced was a date or two people who wanted to be on a date but were instead simply \”hanging out.\”
There is God in this place
I reached back to cover the asparagus fern I had placed just behind the front seat. (At that time I was told no out-of-state plants were allowed.) The car swerved, ran over the embankment and careened down a ditch at top speed.
To Tell the Truth
A little embellishment here and there isn\’t so bad — creativity and a sense of humor are always great things. But there are just certain things that you should never lie about.
Is the ‘Wicked Man’ Just Misunderstood?
Admit it. Don\’t you feel just a little uncomfortable on Purim night, beating the tar out of Haman, shouting him down, cheering ecstatically at his demise? Doesn\’t it bother you just a little bit that the same tradition that encourages us to spill drops of wine at the seder in memory of suffering Egyptian slave drivers also encourages us to drink ourselves silly while hanging Haman and drowning out the very mention of his name?
Safire Says Book of Job Political
Dean\’s confusion about the location of the Book of Job generated a fair amount of ridicule at the time from commentators — but not from William Safire, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist of The New York Times, who is speaking next week about Job at Sinai Temple.
Limits Needed to Set Path for Youths
A few weeks ago, three students at Milken Community Jewish High School in Los Angeles were expelled for making a sexually explicit video of themselves that was eventually seen by members of the student community. Many parents and teachers in the Jewish community have expressed confusion at how educated Jewish students at a school like Milken did what they did.
But to think that what happened at Milken is isolated to the particulars of the parent-child relationships of the families involved is myopic — and too easy. To be sure, such behavior is not widespread in our children\’s communities. But we can be relatively certain that for every incident brought to light, many more are hidden in the shadows.
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