Extend the Tenure for the Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks

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   Name: Lawrnce And Mym Harding on Jun 25, 2012

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   Name: Malcolm Lyons on Jun 25, 2012

   Comments: If there is just a possibility JS will carry on for a while, we should grab ot

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   Name: David Yudt on Jun 25, 2012

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   Name: Peter Lowenberg on Jun 25, 2012

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   Name: Diiego on Jul 1, 2012

   Comments: Cat shooting lasres out of its eyes? STILL FUNNY.Admittedly, I've been enjoying the use of about one brain cell this week, but c'mon, rabbis are awesome! And the rabbi/pirate thing? Even better. My test for these things is: would a rabbi laugh at this? I think so, but who knows, I've been reading so much Jewish fiction lately I separated the milk from the bacon in my grocery bags this morning.

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   Name: Franklim on Jul 1, 2012

   Comments: Ok, I don't see how that is disparaging to Jewish plepoe (aka antisemitic) at all. There is a huge gulf between poor taste and hateful. Even with your substitutions the joke is flat at worst. Really, find something meaningful to get upset about. I'll give you a list to get you started:DarfurHealthcare Disparity in AmericaStem Cell research limits(speaking of Georgia)Need more?

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   Name: Anonymous on Jul 2, 2012

   Comments: Please stay on!

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   Name: Dimitry on Jul 3, 2012

   Comments: it was made of stone. He fails to mention that it was made of unehwn stone. It is not simply that stone is naturally occurring. The stone for the Temple in Jerusalem was quarried and shaped (the Midrash tells us that the stone for Solomon's Temple was cut by the shamir worm, a mysterious creature that G-d fashioned before the world was actually made). But again, the imagery is not about individualism vs socialism. It is about the base level, self-serving vs the Divine.G-d destroyed the world with the flood because of the rampant thievery among people. In the case of the tower, there was a common purpose, though the Talmud tells us that there were varying reasons why people wanted to see the tower built (some contest that Nimrod was even involved). The imposition of the new languages was not to return people to their sense of individuality as Lapin wrongly contends. It was because they united in the common purpose of attempting to elevate themselves to Divine status, to elevate the work of their hands to what G-d had fashioned, rather than celebrating the fact that their ability to create anything by their own hands came from G-d (it is also explained that there were many who feared that the flood that destroyed the world was a recurring event that could be prevented by building not just one tower, but a series of them, failing to accept the Divine promise that G-d would not destroy the world by flood again).So, nice spin, but in the end it was just spin. And when I looked at the EU building at the beginning of the broadcast my first thought was that it looked like the coliseum, which is perfect for the EU mindless entertainment and bloodsport for the masses. Too bad Beck didn't just go with that. That's about as cynical and sinister as you can get.

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   Name: Bobby on Jul 3, 2012

   Comments: Hey, that's a celver way of thinking about it.

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    Name: Adam Rose on Jul 11, 2012

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    Name: Martin SPitzer on Aug 15, 2012

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    Name: Philip Powell on Nov 15, 2012

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    Name: Bookmarks on Mar 14, 2013

    Comments: G0Mogh I cannot thank you enough for the post.Much thanks again. Keep writing.

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