family

Discrimination

כ״ד בכסלו ה׳תש״ע (Friday 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 (Saturday 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 (Friday 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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Jews & the US Army

ז׳ בכסלו ה׳תש״ע (Tuesday 24 November 2009)

My grandfather served in the US army’s occupation of Japan after the Second World War – I was led to believe that he was too young to have been in the army during the war – but he was born in 1926 and I’ve long wondered if he didn’t maneuver somehow to avoid having to [...]

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Nice-to-meet-you Kissing

י״ג במרחשון ה׳תש״ע (Saturday 31 October 2009)

I grew up in a civilized country (viz, America) where everyone feels like they have plenty of space, so people don’t crowd around and touch each other that often. When they meet each other, they stand back and stick out their arms for a handshake, but they make sure to do it in such a [...]

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