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http://www.vintagecobweb.com/ : GOODBYE GOOGLE READER, GOODBYE GFC - GOOGLE FRIEND CONNECT.

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:22:20 +0000

With Google Reader closing what is a good substitute RSS reader?

Jewish Daily Forward : The Modern Orthodox Case for Gender Segregation on Public Buses – The Sisterhood – Forwa

Wed, 18 May 2011 22:12:56 +0000

Ironically sexual segregation actually makes men more likely to become sexually aroused when they inevitably do come into contact with women. Secular men are rarely aroused by seeing women's knees and elbows, but by insisting that those joints be covered Orthodox men eroticize those body parts. If Israeli Haredim want to travel in gender segregated buses they should charter their own private buses (as the NY Haredim do).

Jewish Daily Forward : Jews and Baseball, By the Numbers – The Arty Semite – Forward.com

Mon, 1 Nov 2010 23:36:03 +0000

But are the proponent's of sabermetrics foxes or hedgehogs? See Jonah Lehrer's critique of prognostication in Wired: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/11/dont-wa...

Jewish Daily Forward : Jewish Women, Behind the (Face) Veil – The Sisterhood – Forward.com

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:16:50 +0000

This seems to confirm JTS scholar David Kramer's observation that the tendency for each generation to become more strict in its ritual observance is driven by women. The practice clearly emulates devout Muslim female attire and may reflect a desire to not appear less modest than one's gentile neighbors and /or to conform to regional standards of modesty, just as in Christian Europe a millenium ago nun's habits were introduced in imitation of Muslim female attire. Likewise, recent Yemeni Jewish women immigrants arrived in Rockland county NY covered up from head to toe. Ironically it contradicts traditional Jewish admonitions not to mimic the ways of one's gentile neighbors, such as the saying in the Shulchan Aroch that if the gentiles in your city tie their right shoe first and then their left, we should do the opposite (which is the basis of the Chasidic practice of not wearing neckties). It may also be an attempt by these Haredi women to further separate and distinguish themselves from more cosmopolitan Israelis.