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Category Archives: Humor
Things I’ll Never Have, but Would be Cool
Behold, the greatest pulpit ever: My question is: which is the more important item on the pulpit: iPad or Bible? Thanks to Will for sending this bit of genius along. Indeed, this is so cool I may have to reconsider … Continue reading
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The Great Muppet Conspiracy
I really like the Muppets, and I really enjoyed the recent movie. I thought the music was good, the movie was funny, and the script had exactly the right Muppet mix of zaniness/sweetness that I have come to expect from … Continue reading
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Prior Predictions
Die hard readers of this blog may remember a rather long piece I wrote several months ago about how rooting for the Pittsburgh Pirates is rather akin to the myth of Sisyphus, except instead of the fabled rock rolling back … Continue reading
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Macabee Movie
If you were going to make a movie about the Maccabees and the revolt against Hellenizing Jews and then against the Syrian Greeks, wouldn’t you want it to be written by the guy who wrote Basic Instinct and be produced … Continue reading
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Uh Oh
Let me just put it this way. If this ESPN expert is right about how this year’s NFL season turns out, I will be heading into the FBI witness protection program come late January: 44. AFC championship Pittsburgh vs. New … Continue reading
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Bad News for Rabbis
Via The Daily Dish, this academic study, as least as reported by the Boston Globe seems to make life harder for clergy: Moral leadership is challenging for an obvious reason — you have to know what’s right and wrong. But … Continue reading
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Pirates’ Freefall caused by One Bad Call
That’s my story. A while back, I wrote about the inner-life of the Pirates’ fan. I wrote about how we always have our spirits lifted just a little bit, only to have them dashed on the rocks of reality at … Continue reading
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NEWSFLASH: PORK NOW KOSHER
At least in Queens. Via Jeffrey Goldberg, this great story from New Yorker writer Philip Gourevitch about a (I think) mislabeled slice of meat in a supermarket: But if you want actual Kosher pork—pork spare ribs, pork cutlets, center-cut pork … Continue reading
A Clash of Lights
This blog is officially in trouble. As you may know, in my capacity as Chief Conservative Rabbi of the State of Louisiana, I have made known my deep love and affection for Game of Thrones and Friday Night Lights. I … Continue reading
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Did You Put on Tefillin Today?
Anybody who has ever been in Israel for any length of time has encountered the CHABAD guys who wander around asking men if they’ve put on tefillin yet that day. We’ll apparently those folks have gone high tech: For the … Continue reading
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Annals of Journalism
Great line from a post-false-apocalypse article in The New York Times: A California religious radio impresario who predicted — wrongly — that the end of the world would begin on May 21 revised his prophesy on Monday, saying now that … Continue reading
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More Benefits to the End of the World
Okay, so I am not entirely done having fun with the world ending on Saturday. (Boy, will my face be red on Saturday if I am wrong!) Here’s some good news for New Yorkers, if the world ends, there will … Continue reading
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The Maimonides/Tim LaHaye Convergence
What do Moses Maimonides, the great medieval Jewish scholar and Tim LaHaye authors of the wildly successful novelization of the Book of Revelations in a series called Left Behind agree on? It’s not a good a idea to predict the … Continue reading
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E-Mail Comment of the Day
A concerned reader writes: I assume that if this whole Rapture/apocalypse-thingy happens Saturday, services will still go on as scheduled? Just trying to plan my day… Services will continue as scheduled, but I might not hold my class after lunch. … Continue reading
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More Pictures from Di Tzeitung
As you may have heard, the ultra-Orthodox paper Di Tzeitung recently published a picture of members of the White House national security team watching the rain on Bin Laden, except they airbrushed Hilary Clinton out of the picture. There’s a … Continue reading
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