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ב' בטבת ה'תש"ע (December 2009)

JFS and Racial Discrimination

ב' בטבת ה'תש"ע (19 December 2009)

As a university student in America, I once read an article posing the question: When did the modern era in Jewish history begin? The author’s answer was to point out that the answer depends on who answers the question. A Zionist might say, for example, that modern Jewish history began in 1789 with the rise [...]

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Public Education

א' בטבת ה'תש"ע (18 December 2009)

Suppose private education were banned tomorrow. What would happen next? That question is not entirely academic. Progressives hate private education with all their might and they would absolutely move to crush it if they had the resources. Here in Israel, there is essentially no system of private education. At the primary and secondary level, there [...]

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Hanukah

כ"ה בכסלו ה'תש"ע (12 December 2009)

I’ve noticed that a lot of the readers here are coming from places in the world where there are not a lot of Jews. Consequently, there may be people reading DoG who don’t know what Hanukah is and what it’s all about. Hanukah (rhymes with Monica) is the Jewish Christmas. It celebrates the birth of [...]

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Discrimination

כ"ד בכסלו ה'תש"ע (11 December 2009)

When I went to college years ago in America, I took a constitutional law class with a professor so fanatic and bloodthirsty that she made me feel uncomfortable as a male to attend the lectures (I passed it by cramming with the help of an arch-feminist who later became a lesbian – see, I don’t [...]

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Rules: Apartment Interviewing

י"ח בכסלו ה'תש"ע (5 December 2009)

My roommate moved out a couple weeks ago, so I’ve been compelled to advertise her room and interview candidates to replace her. It’s been a nightmare process and consequently I’m bringing you some guidelines for interviewing to move into an apartment as a new roommate: Don’t be proud to be unemployed. I don’t necessarily fault [...]

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Divorce

י"ז בכסלו ה'תש"ע (4 December 2009)

It happened suddenly. I worked closely with a certain guy for a couple years. We were on the same team in a job with some customer service orientation. He was phenomenally good at dealing with the clients. He’s a problem-solver; he loves to help people. He is gentle, progressive and generous to a fault. He [...]

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