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a meme
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organ donation
There exist some who claim that observant Jews cannot donate their organs but can give them. Despite the fact that they feel organ donation is murder in most cases (because they do not accept brain death as death, and so the donor is murdered by removing his organs), they feel this murder will occur anyway, and since it is life-saving it is ( Read more... ) -
Children & Time
I don't have children, so I'm perplexed by something I see my friends with children doing ( Read more... ) -
The 9-12 Project
So I was reading the principles and values of the 9-12 Project, founded by Glenn Beck. The explanation of why I was there in the first place I will leave to a particular XKCD. While there is a comment section there, I didn't think it was easily useable, and this way my comment is not under their editorial control.
First, the problem in general ( Read more... ) -
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Dear Yeshiva University,
You did something good on Tuesday night. Stop trying to backtrack. Putting up letters about the importance of being "discreet" demonstrates your having missed the point.
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How hot is hot food?
According to Rabbi Mordechai Willig of YU, a liquid which has cooled on Shabbat beyond the point of being served as hot food may not be reheated. He admits this is contrary to the opinion of his contemporaries, who say that as long as it has not cooled completely, usually understood to mean that it is still above room temperature, it may be ( Read more... ) -
Eruvin are weird
Strange things found in Shulchan Aruch Orach Chayim Siman 362 with the commentary of the Mishnah Berura (eruv here is used in the Yiddish sense to refer to the enclosure, rather than the rabbinic Hebrew sense to refer to the food ( Read more... ) -
More thoughts on educational assessment
So I recently got into the Room for Debate blog on nytimes.com. So I thought I'd comment on one that particularly struck me, about testing, particularly standardized testing.
A lot of my thinking on this subject has been influenced by a book I had to read for my Assessment class. I disagree with him on some points, but we'll get to that in a ( Read more... ) -
Don't read into this more than is there
Often a pair of fellows will sit across a table from each other with open sefarim. They will try to concentrate on the tractate they should be learning, but will inevitably be pulled into a conversation about some side topic. Despite trying to return to their studies, they will again divert into extraneous conversation. On watching this, I was ( Read more... )