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Entries by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach from 09/2009

Obama Should Speak to Schoolkids About Studying

| Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics
Read More: Television, Reality TV, Obama Speech, The Godfather, Kindle, Intellectual Curiosity, Shalom in the Home, War and Peace, Barack Obama, Machiavelli, Obama School Speech, Politics News

The loss of intellectual curiosity, and the death of reading, among our kids is a serious crisis as our children gravitate away from the written word and toward the visual image.

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J Street's Shameful Attacks on Aipac

| Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
Read More: The Zoa, Aipac, Gaza, Israel Lobby, J Street, Hamas, Israel, The Adl, Politics News

The left-wing Israeli lobby J Street's cheap tactics of creating its name by attacking Aipac, the ADL, and the ZOA is shameful. There's room in the Jewish community for many voices without creating a civil war.

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Michael Jackson's and My Dream to Create a National Family Dinner Night

| Posted 09.24.2009 | Healthy Living
Read More: Michael Jackson, Jehovah's Witnesses, Michael Jackson Death, Meredith Vieira, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Dateline NBC, The Michael Jackson Tapes, Family, Family Dinners, Healthy Living News

Michael's tragic life, in which he medicated away his loneliness until it finally consumed him, serves as a morality tale to the rest of us. Our children do not need fame and fortune but love and attention.

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Michael Jackson Despised Hitler and Was Never an Anti-Semite

| Posted 09.25.2009 | Entertainment
Read More: Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson Hitler, Video, MJ Hitler, Entertainment News

It was bizarre seeing this morning how hundreds of news sources alleged that Michael Jackson admired Hitler and considered him a genius. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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Jimmy Carter's Price Tag

| Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
Read More: Jimmy Carter, Politics News

Carter has always subscribed to 'Underdogma,' a knee-jerk reaction to champion the cause of any underdog, however immoral. To him, poverty dictates virtue and weakness dictates righteousness.

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