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A moving essay that starts with what social scientists call "the trauma of civility" (learning another culture's manners) and ends in self-acceptance: Inappropriate for the Shabbos Table

15 Shocking Tales of How Sex Laws Are Screwing the American People
In New York the statutory rape laws have an exception for a teen or young adult whose age is within three years of his/her partner's age; that should be a model for other states.

UK plans universal access to high-speed Internet
Another way we in the USA are falling behind the rest of the developed world.

The Terrorist Threat: Right-Wing Radicals and the Eliminationist Mindset
Understanding the dangerous worldview that led to the murder of an innocent doctor and an attack at the Holocaust Museum.

Something To Consider - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi Coates: "To be a true conservative is to be more disturbed by victimology, than actual victimizing."

What G.P.S. Can Do for Your Marriage - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com

Is GPS good, bad, or neutral for a marriage?

Four events of interest to Jewish New Yorkers this weekend

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Simcha Raphael’s talk on "Jewish Views of the Afterlife"

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NY Jewish Culture Examiner: The Western Hemisphere's only Greek Romaniote Synagogue

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overweight women have more sex

If the study had divided the women into three groups, overweight, normal or healthy weight, and underweight I think the underweight women would be the least sexually active. Not only does starving oneself not put one in the mood it may also indicate a discomfort with sexuality and a nostalgia for the sexual ignorance of childhood. Anorexic women equate being thin with being "good"; they want to be "good girls" and have an irrational fear of adult sexuality.

On the other hand obesity poses significant health risks. I doubt that having diabetes, heart disease, or cancer enhance one's libido. As in so much else in life there is a healthy middle ground, a range of weight that avoids both obesity and anorexia. When managing one's weight becomes an obsession one is less likely to actually think sexual thoughts. Feeling comfortable with oneself and one's body makes one feel sexy, and feeling sexy increases the opportunities to actually have sex.

Gaza kids 'training to kill Jews'

Eleven-year-old trainee: I'd rather die fighting the occupation than die at home from a missile. Islamic Jihad threatens to unleash 'the fires of hell' on Israel.