Ethics

Stay Away From This Woman

כ"ב באלול ה'תש"ע (1 September 2010)

Sometimes I can read an advice column just for the questions, and ignore the answers. This is one of those times: Dear Prudence, Twenty years ago, I had a child out of wedlock. I had slept with two men during that period, “Tom” and “Mike.” I assumed Tom was the father, but when I told [...]

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Penmanship

י"ט באלול ה'תש"ע (29 August 2010)

Intelligent people usually don’t start their letters like this: “Say my man, Ain’t nothing happening man…” But then, no one ever accused the boxer formerly known as Cassius Clay of being particularly intelligent (right?). Please note, however, that this guy who threw fists for a living and converted to Islam actually has penmanship that puts [...]

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Divorce Insurance

ט"ז באלול ה'תש"ע (26 August 2010)

Wow. Divorce insurance is a real thing. I can understand the case for auto insurance, though I don’t make car ownership a part of my life. Same for homeowners’ insurance, though I don’t own a home. I can even understand the rumors that Jennifer Lopez insured her ass. But divorce insurance? Really? Why would somebody [...]

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Israel & Turkey

י"ד באלול ה'תש"ע (24 August 2010)

Whenever I think about Israel’s relationship with Turkey, I think of Jabotinsky‘s book Taryag Millim: An Introduction to Spoken Hebrew (In Latin Characters). Though he was careful to say that he wasn’t using the book to advocate for a Latinized letter system for Hebrew like Mustafa Kemal did with Turkish, the book reflects an interesting [...]

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Boys & Girls & Maturity

י"ג באלול ה'תש"ע (23 August 2010)

When I was a “pre-teen,” I was informed multiple times by adults in my vicinity that girls matured faster than boys (now “pre-teens” don’t even exist any more, having been replaced by “tweens”). Some evidence around me seemed to support this contention. By all accounts, the girls around me matured physically a year or two [...]

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How to Cheat on a Test

כ"ד בתמוז ה'תש"ע (6 July 2010)

If you came here looking for instructions on cheating, you won’t find them. I am a reformed cheater and think cheating is despicable, so please don’t do it. In my high school, virtually everybody cheated (I know of two students who didn’t), but in retrospect I would have been much better off if I’d not [...]

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