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teacher, preacher, speaker, educator, wall street analyst, occupational therapist, hunter-gatherer, anti-globalization activist, pro- amerindian land rights, pro-jewish-settlement, logistics professional, shaman, kabbalist, lifeguard.

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"not so different from jazz or rock n roll" on Assimilation and its Discontents
07/26/07 8:45 am, 3 other comments
as with many music/art forms in american culture, hip-hop started out as a particularly black form of expression, and once it achieved success and influence, began welcoming artists from all backgrounds as long as they had talent (and was often ...
"membership vs. conceptual community" on Q&A With the Author of “Orthodox Paradox”
07/26/07 8:32 am, 1 other comment
It's a very real dichotomy, Joey, much as we would like it not to be.  Judaism not lived in a coherent shared-community way simply does not last, however beautiful and inclusive and universal that version of Judaism (Reform, ...
"intermarriage and jewish identity" on Understanding Exile OR Orthodox Paradox: Electric Boogaloo OR Noah Feldman Is Hot Let's Not Excommunicate Him
07/25/07 4:18 am
unfortunately, because of the traumas of exile, the prohibition on intermarriage was accepted by almost all jews, for a very long time.  That gives it a halachic strength, that only a sanhedrin could reverse it.  Also there IS pshat ...
"unexamined assumptions about democracy" on Hugo Boss: Venezuela's Quickened Descent Into Autocracy
07/25/07 4:02 am
subtext of this journalist/dissident, and of many who discuss chavez, is that democracy is automatically a good thing and autocracy or dictatorship are automatically bad. They are value-free: they are descriptive terms of certain systems ...
"heart of the matter" on Scrap the Mechitza
07/22/07 7:42 am
ah, scrap the whole idea of minyan, scrap the idea of Jews  praying in  shul/synagogue... these are all 'b'diavad" ideas (after-the-fact, or not ideal); it's not how Judaism is supposed to work-- mechitza or not.  In ...
"if there's contradictions..." on The Canard of Modern "Anti-Zionism"
07/22/07 7:33 am
it must be the jew's fault.  those slippery, sneaky, jews, who do so much that us poor anti-zionists can't get a logical fix on what evil they're actually doing...We do live in Orwellian times, and critics of Israel from ...

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