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...
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5 Levels of Pleasure? I’ll Take One Of Each, Please. With...
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...
A Bracha For Tarantino
I gave Quentin Tarantino a blessing. Let me explain. I had never gone to see a Tarantino film. I had only seen clips. But I couldn’t pass up a chance to see Inglourious Basterds at a private...
What Should a Rabbi Drive II: Test Ride Edition
Vanity Fair car columnist Brett Berk made it to LA, and we followed up on the original story, of my car dilemma. Read the first article, if you haven’t, in order for this one to make even more...