י״ד באב ה׳תש״ע (Sunday 25 July 2010)

What is a Jew?

י״ד באב ה׳תש״ע (Sunday 25 July 2010)

In response to my post on 9 Av, Will S. asked why non-religious Jews choose to remain Jewish by choice: Is it just shared experience, and/or sense of high degree of persecution by outsiders, that inculcates the sense of “we’re a people” in secularist Jews, making them want to live amongst their own rather than [...]

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Israel is a Police State

י׳ באב ה׳תש״ע (Wednesday 21 July 2010)

Israeli propaganda would have you believe that Israel is a liberal western democracy. Though it’s true that Israel is a democracy – much to our detriment – this society is not western, and there is very little about life here that’s liberal. Israeli citizens are required to carry identification and explain who they are and [...]

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31 Year Old Girls Are Not Hot

ט׳ באב ה׳תש״ע (Tuesday 20 July 2010)

As I wrote once about older girls, I basically like fucking them. I’m talking about girls between, let’s say, 30 and 35. I can’t really imagine fucking a girl in her late 30s, and the late 20s is still a no man’s land for me. Older girls are great for what they’ve attained, not for [...]

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Lady Gaga & Gene Weingarten Are Secret Lovers

ט׳ באב ה׳תש״ע (Tuesday 20 July 2010)

I’m sure he’d appreciate that title, though it would make him a homosexual. Right? Anyway, I understand that Gene Weingarten is supposed to be funny, but is it even right to laugh when a guy tells a joke about his own industry’s obsolescence and what they’re trying to do to save their own asses? I [...]

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9 Av

ח׳ באב ה׳תש״ע (Monday 19 July 2010)

Today is a calamitous day in Jewish history, when we observe the destruction of both Temples, by the Babylonians and Romans respectively. It’s not a holiday the observance of which is mandated in the Torah, so I consider it entirely optional to participate in the public mourning. Nevertheless, I am always surprised and disappointed how [...]

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Contact Lenses & My Appearance

א׳ באב ה׳תש״ע (Monday 12 July 2010)

Like Sam, I was a latecomer to the contact lenses club. I thought about this a lot recently after I saw a girl in glasses after I’d been dating her for a while. Of all people, I should not look at someone differently for wearing glasses. But she did seem different. I wore glasses every [...]

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