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Jewish World Review

May 4, 2008
I found there was only one way to look thin, hang out with fat people.
  —  Rodney Dangerfield


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outlook
Rote religiosity
By Rabbi Berel Wein

How the discipline of mitzvos -- commandments -- creates an opportunity for spiritual growth and greatness




reality check
Whitewashing Hamas
By Caroline B. Glick

The guilty-list continues to grow

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NEW SERIES!
"Sparks of Spirituality by Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski"

Sermon-ettes to jolt your soul and grow your humanity
Today: Give because it is the Divine's will


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Today: Parent trap?

The Sage of Saint Louie, Rabbi Sroy Levitansky, makes a lofty biblical concept street-level practical in this brief segment on fashioning a vibrant spiritual life

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The Wizard of Id
9 to 5
Andy Capp
Baloo
Bliss
The Born Loser
Bound and Gagged
Bottom Liners
Flo & Friends
Frank & Ernest
The Grizzwells
Herman
Mallard Filmore
Moderately Confused
Momma
One Big Happy
The Other Coast
Prickly City
Shoe
State of the Union




Robert Arial
Chip Bok
John Branch
Lisa Benson
John Cole
J.D. Crowe
Jake Fuller
Bob Gorrell
Joe Heller
David Hitch
Jerry Holbert
Steve Kelley
Dick Locher
Chan Lowe
Dana Summers
Gary Varvel
Michael Ramirez

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Tech Maven by Mark Kellner: Small improvements

Experts agree: Kids need early education programs. But how early?

Dr. Peter H. Gott: Co-workers mock pain sufferer

Frugal Living by Sara Noel : Muffin pans save the day


Marilyn Penn: Good Cop/ Bad Cop

Judith A. Klinghoffer: Jon Stewart justifies Wright on 9/11

Jerry Bowyer: Don’t Blame the Markets

Arnold Ahlert: Character(s) Count(s)

Monica Crowley: DIS-Loyalty

Julia Gorin: Oprah Evolves



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Kathleen Parker: ‘Bad Dads’ a Bad Idea

Argus Hamilton skewers politics and contemporary "culture"

Greg Crosby: That's Why They're Called WILD Animals

Suzanne Fields : A Rising Tide of Ignorance

Mona Charen: What We're Buying at College

Diana West: Iraq war architects shrug off truth

Jonah Goldberg: Tall tales about Tuskegee

Dave Weinbaum: Rev. Wrong: USA, the land of the oppressed and hopeless

David Limbaugh: ‘Willful Blindness’ to the Jihad

Wesley Pruden: Has anybody got a flag pin?

Paul Greenberg: Problems, problems . . .

Rich Lowry: John McCain — candidate of change?

Linda Chavez: Obama: Too Little, Too Late

Charles Krauthammer: The 'Race Speech' Revisited (DEVASTATING!)


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