Month: July 2016
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Surviving Your Midlife Crisis
In the first stage, you do what you have to do. Hands over your ears, you march. Elementary school, high school, college, job and maybe grad school. Maybe the military, maybe marriage, maybe kids. There go your boots on the pavement. Do you hear the rain? That’s about all you hear, in the protection of your…
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Rabbinic Sexism Is Not Religious
Here is a screenshot photo from a video posted to Facebook July 7, 2016 by Israeli nonprofit group Women of the Wall. It shows religious men ripping up the prayerbook, to applause and cheering, of a group of women who have gathered to pray at the Western Wall, the only remnant of the holy Jewish…
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Taking Our Torah Back From Tyrants
I was done with Judaism and I was angry about being done and I was telling my aunt Renee all about it. It was about seven years ago; that was the last time I ever saw her, before she made Aliyah to Israel. We were not too far from the FDR Memorial in Washington, DC.…
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Nobody Can Believe This Manager
So there’s this “Ask A Manager” Q&A that’s gone viral, at least judging by my own newsfeed and the fact that Buzzfeed did a whole piece on it. You can read the whole thing for yourself, because it’s pretty interesting. But the bottom line is that this manager wouldn’t let an employee take two hours off to attend…
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A Sad Day In American History
As a private citizen I am raising my voice in protest at this travesty of justice. There is only one law of the land. Not two sets of laws, one for the powerful and one for everybody else. While I support her candidacy as versus Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton should be prosecuted for gross negligence…
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Will You Declare Independence This July 4?
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” – The Declaration of Independence, by Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President (1801-1809) There is explicit slavery and implicit slavery, and most of us are tied up…
2016 Diary - Dannielle Blumenthal 