This week, on the East Coast, The Washington Post announced that it will use ‘they’ as a singular pronoun in stories where the subject identifies as neither a “he” nor a...
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Who is 2014’s Sexiest Rabbi?
Jewrotica has announced the opening of nominations for this year’s sexiest Rabbis. I guess I should say “sexiest” because, despite the site’s nomenclature, this isn’t a...
What Converts to Judaism Can Teach Our Rabbis
Over the years we’ve discussed conversions on many occasions on this site. For instance, here is one of the more interesting discussions. A number of days ago a respected and prominent American...
Picturing Rabbis: Rabbis on Instagram
Having written about my using of Instagram, I wanted to see how many rabbis are using Instagram. So, I ran a search of “Rabbi” on Instagram, I discovered there are not that many rabbis...
Jason Collins: Black, Gay; and Jewish Piggybacking
Earlier this week, in a well-orchestrated series of events, NBA basketball athlete Jason Collins came out as a gay man and became the first active athlete on a major American sports team to be open...
5 Levels of Pleasure? I’ll Take One Of Each, Please. With Pleasure.
We all want to feel pleasure, and we want it now…don’t we deserve it? It’s human nature to feel that way. According to Judaism, there are five levels of pleasure, and at each level...
A nose by any other…
shape would smell as well. I could not enter the weekend without one more tiny posting. Lea Michele, who plays the character of Rachel Berry on the popular Fox TV show, “Glee,†told Access...
Boxing Champ and Future Rabbi Yuri Foreman Featured in LA Times
See him at Jewlicious this weekend! The LA Times featured Yuri Foreman in an article today: Foreman, the unbeaten “Lion of Zion,” became the latest to join the list after twice knocking...