Aug. 10th, 2009

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Don't Need To Be a Rocket Scientist | TPM

AJC columnist Jay Bookman noticed that in the latest Investors Business Daily editorial about how the 'death panel' will condemn all handicapped or disabled people to death on some horrid wind-swept mountain, it notes that ...

People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.

Needless to say, Hawking, who is recognized as one of the great theoretical physicists of the 20th and 21st century, was born in the UK and has lived his entire life there.
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Don't Need To Be a Rocket Scientist | TPM

AJC columnist Jay Bookman noticed that in the latest Investors Business Daily editorial about how the 'death panel' will condemn all handicapped or disabled people to death on some horrid wind-swept mountain, it notes that ...

People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.

Needless to say, Hawking, who is recognized as one of the great theoretical physicists of the 20th and 21st century, was born in the UK and has lived his entire life there.
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Bar Mitzvah Blowjobs | Frum Satire | Jewish Comedy

I reached puberty later than everyone else, so an offer of such a gift would have been awkward. Since I grew up Reform it would have been a nice confirmation gift a few years later.
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Bar Mitzvah Blowjobs | Frum Satire | Jewish Comedy

I reached puberty later than everyone else, so an offer of such a gift would have been awkward. Since I grew up Reform it would have been a nice confirmation gift a few years later.
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City Rabbi Goes Country | Synagogue 3000

The wilderness allows people to use vocabulary that would feel cheesy, sappy or otherwise overly poetic anywhere else. In nature, we're allowed to use words of awe. It's the only place where that vocabulary is widely accepted and can be used by "in," "out" and "non"-marrieds and by women AND men. Exclamations of wonder and awe are easy to say and hear when standing next to a hanging glacier or a tiny purple wildflower growing up from the parched desert. People get used to using vocabulary that expresses gratitude, awareness, searching when we're surrounded by nature. And once those words enter our vocabulary and we feel safe using them... they can be used in a Jewish context, too. How easy it is to be thankful for beauty that we see, to raise questions about the inexplicable, to ask for help climbing over a huge boulder when we've all agreed that awe-language is appropriate.
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City Rabbi Goes Country | Synagogue 3000

The wilderness allows people to use vocabulary that would feel cheesy, sappy or otherwise overly poetic anywhere else. In nature, we're allowed to use words of awe. It's the only place where that vocabulary is widely accepted and can be used by "in," "out" and "non"-marrieds and by women AND men. Exclamations of wonder and awe are easy to say and hear when standing next to a hanging glacier or a tiny purple wildflower growing up from the parched desert. People get used to using vocabulary that expresses gratitude, awareness, searching when we're surrounded by nature. And once those words enter our vocabulary and we feel safe using them... they can be used in a Jewish context, too. How easy it is to be thankful for beauty that we see, to raise questions about the inexplicable, to ask for help climbing over a huge boulder when we've all agreed that awe-language is appropriate.

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