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New page, please
Editing is a great gig. A person doesn't have to write a thing, but has the power to change what others have written by permitting or not permitting a line, a headline, or even a paragraph. Spin is the...
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Is it time to share what I believe?
One reader asks, “You want me to talk to Mr. Goldberg….about Jesus? And during Christmas?” Answer:In October, Myer and David Jones began to feature Santa themes throughout their stores. It’s hard to...
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Rabbi Heir and Jesus...which one is true?
I've been watching YouTube videos for the last few days, not trolling, but amazed at what my computer recommends for me to see. On Larry King Live, a CNN TV interview show, Larry often entered...
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Who are Messianic Jews?
In the wake of the tragic shooting in San Bernardino, literally thousands of articles have emerged about one of the victims, Nicholas Thalasinos. Those reports have identified Thalasinos as a Messianic...
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On the 6th day of Hanukkah...
We are more than halfway through the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah and maybe this Vox Pop with Jewish people from a few years ago says what you think about the holiday. YouTube 2009. But then maybe it's...
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18% off SALE FRIDAY
This may seem an odd blog, but we want to let you know that THIS FRIDAY, 18 December in Sydney at our book shop, we are selling EVERYthing in the shop at 18% off. 18 on 18The address is 257 Oxford...
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'Twas the Friday before Christmas... (around the JFJ Book Shop)
With apologies to Clement Clarke Moore: (And with 18% off all day Friday in mind)'Twas the week before Christmas, when all through the shopall the creatures were stirring, especially Bob.The stock...
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Can an airline really do this?
Apparently this whole thing is legal. I'm shocked. And saddened. It's that Kuwait Airlines will not allow people of a country they don't like fly on their airplanes. What? This sounds like something...
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Can we say "Christmas"? In public?
I check snopes so often it's not funny. Here's the one I check this time of year from Jewish actor Ben Stein and his confessions for the holidays . He says, "I don't feel discriminated against. That's...
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The coin toss and the captain who chooses
The coin flip at the beginning of overtime in today's New England Patriots vs New York Jets is controversial. Not that the coin landed on its side. The call by special teams captain Matthew Slater #18...
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Explosives and Australia
New Years Eve is just a day away and all eyes will be on Sydney's Harbour Bridge and fireworks extravaganza. Each year the projections climb about the numbers of people who will be watching either or...
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Uniting Church, Jesus and Palestinians
A blog written by MICHAEL VAN DER GALIEN came across my screen tonight. It's here In this piece Van Der Galien affirms that Jesus was in fact a Jew, and that he was not in modern terms a Palestinian....
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Fire and rain...Turbulence in Sweet '16
No one in Australia would have been unaware of the millions of dollars being spent in the New Years Eve fireworks shows in Sydney and Melbourne and to little villages and small country towns all over...
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Christmas and that man with the thorns
Adapted with attribution from"Kabbalah Kronicles 34 by Uncle Zally / Zalman Velvet"I arrived at the computer store ten minutes before midnight, on the last Thursday in November, hoping to avoid the...
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Morals and sports
When Pete Rose, known as Charlie Hustle, was discovered as having gambled on professional sports games, he lost his place in American baseball history. Look who he was and then consider how he fell....
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Fascinating?
by Bob MendelsohnI'm writing this blog in the air. Not in my back yard overlooking the creek. Not from a high-rise building. But from 36,000 feet, on a United Airlines jet plane. I plugged my computer...
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Densification and the new technocracy
Mark McCrindle is one of my go-to guys for trends in society, certainly in Australian society. He wrote an article for the Huffington Post about the latest trends and commented on this issue of...
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The miser and the slippers by S. Brombacher
Photo Credit: AdamJiaoshi130 In a small village lived a very rich miser. Every time the local rabbi came to his door to collect funds for the poor, the miser would invite the rabbi in, offer the rabbi...
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Admitting hypocrisy
I don't like knowing some things about myself. I know those things I do when I'm alone; I sometimes appreciate them. And I know what I have promised and commitments I've made. And I sometimes keep...
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Priests and Melchizedek
A sermon given at Epping Baptist ChurchEpping NSW 24 January 2016Thank you for that reading from Psalm 110. Here at Epping Baptist you are looking at the pslams during the month of January, and I...
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