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Robert Deacon April 16, 2013 at 01:51 pm
Thank you Richard. If you have a smart phone you may access my info by texting the word…Read More "MOLD" to 71441 this will open a link and give you my pertinent information at your fingertips. Look forward to one day meeting you.
Robert Deacon
Richard Warden April 16, 2013 at 01:35 pm
I'll keep you in mind for recommendations. I'm a licensed home inspector performing many…Read More pre-purchase home inspections with my company Southampton Home Inspections AKA Suffolk New York Home Inspections.
Ann Darcy April 16, 2013 at 02:10 am
Hello Rabbi Huberman, Usually I give up TMZ for Lent, but then go back to it as it can be amusing…Read More at times. I don't even know who they are talking about, for example:. Ashley Tisdale.(?) Anyway, calling somebody a "rising nobody" is funny for a second but basically its just snark, or as you call it "dreque". You inspired me to give it up completely, forever. Thank you. Ann
P Shoshanamarie O'Hare April 14, 2013 at 04:09 pm
Ps: it also helps disabled girls have more confidence in themselves ..
P Shoshanamarie O'Hare April 14, 2013 at 04:08 pm
That is not true. Pageants open a door for girls/woman to speak out and help out. There are many…Read More different types of pageants to chose from. Not all are about beauty alone.
Miss Long Island 1997
Also a Lupus and domestic violence Survivor
Jen Thomas April 13, 2013 at 12:02 am
We should be teaching our daughters to love and respect themselves and pageants do not do that.…Read More Feel like a queen? How about a judge or an architect? As the mother of a disabled daughter, I am appalled by this.
JustAnotherOne May 21, 2013 at 02:17 pm
I followed the directions but it says “coming soon!!!”. Perhaps it’s starting June…Read More 1 not May 1.
Rabbi Irwin Huberman April 10, 2013 at 02:37 pm
Interesting article. It reinforces the point of the blog which stresses the importance of ensuring…Read More that animal rights, labor laws and environmental respected when we slaughter and prepare our food. It's also interesting to note that the Noahide law of respecting animal rights appears in the Torah many generations before the laws of Kashrut.
Rabbi Irwin Huberman April 10, 2013 at 02:34 pm
The simple answer to your question is "the Bible says so." Leviticus 11:21 notes "you…Read More may eat all the winged swarmy things that will walk on all fours; all that have above their feet jointed legs to leap with on the ground" This includes bald locust, crickets and all varieties of grasshoppers.
As "counter intuitive" as this may appear to us living in the United States, especially during times of famine it was important set boundaries with regard to what people could consume. After all, Kosher actually means "fit" to eat. Although the Bible is vague on why it distinguishes between different types of insects, I am guessing that the law seeks to divide insects which spend all their time walking in the earth and dust, and those who were able to jump or fly.
It is interesting to note that last month, just prior to Passover, a rare infestation of locust occurred in the Middle East. The attached link documents the "invasion" and notes that this set off a fad of locust eating in various many countries.
http://news.yahoo.com/bible-comes-life-locusts-swarm-israel-190310435.html
Consuming locust may seem odd to us, but based on some of the fast foods or other items which we consume on the fly in North America, who are we to judge?
Thank you for the question.
Micah Danney (Editor) April 10, 2013 at 01:49 pm
Thanks for this article. There was a NYT op-ed on the subject of animal treatment published Monday:…Read More http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/09/opinion/open-the-slaughterhouses.html?_r=1&. Could how we treat "food animals," maybe the most rights-deprived sentient members of our society, relate to our sense of compassion, or lack of it, in other arenas?
Mariane Campbell April 8, 2013 at 12:24 pm
No one should every turn their backs if they see or suspect animal abuse. Animal abuse is one step…Read More away from child abuse or elderly abuse.
Steve April 8, 2013 at 05:10 am
I guess I was a month to early- I call SPCA last month to report a case of animal
cruelty and…Read More nothing seems to have been done about it- my tenants dog is woefully underweight (you can see his ribs) and looks like she hasn't had is nails cut in a year
I gave them all the information they asked but when I called back later(twice) I was told that whoever was in charge of the case would get in touch with me(which he never did- leaving a message on my phone with no call back number isn't my idea of getting back to someone) I've still been feeding the poor thing when I can but the tenant is being evicted at the end of this month and I fear he's going to get rid of the dog
Right Here May 21, 2013 at 10:48 am
Maybe because once in the system, they see each additional baby as an additional check with more…Read More benefits?
The Soup Nazi April 21, 2013 at 09:18 pm
You should have moved your offense to defense and visa versa. e used to say no shots after 5-0 I…Read More think. It was a felony offense but it could have ben handled better. did you take your best players out.
Kristen Ferrari April 6, 2013 at 10:14 pm
David,
I do understand your point and I agree that at certain ages there is something to be said…Read More for keeping the score closer. Not all kids are natural athletes and getting beat into the ground by a better player isn't always incentive to get better.
There should be a balance and I'd like to be clearer than maybe I was in my comment that I'm talking about an older more competitive level. There is a lot of criticism about trophies for all and everyone getting and I think some of that comes from fear that as a country we are becoming more about feelings and less about competition. Again, there needs to be a balance. Sports are a great outlet for kids and they should be encouraged to play and discover that sense of accomplishment that comes from learning skills. But no kid especially on a younger level should be made to feel bad about themselves.
David Allen April 6, 2013 at 05:00 pm
I appreciate the feedback and I would like to address some of the comments.
The object of any game…Read More is to win and to play to the best of your ability.
If you can challenge yourself to improve by trying something new that's even better. By the way a mismatch is an excellent time to challenge yourself with something new.
It's not about playing to win, the issue is when you have the game won, when you have out played and continue to outplay the opponent and there is clearly no comeback in the offing. What do you do? These are not college or pro athletes who train year round and are a momentum changing play away from a huge comeback. These are youth soccer mismatches.
The LIJSL encourages sportsmanship by requesting that coaches don’t run up the score. Yet in the same season they reward teams that don’t honor their request by giving them the sportsmanship award. It doesn’t make sense and it devalues the entire sportsmanship concept. Why have a sportsmanship program if you’re not truly honoring sportsmanship?
Finally, I do not pretend to be qualified to determine the psychological effect on the winners and losers of these mismatches. But there seems to be a consensus among youth soccer leagues that a goal differential limit is a good thing. Some leagues will fine a club for running up a score. Does that make us a weaker culture? I don’t know. And I doubt that anyone using the term “wussification” is qualified to answer that question either.
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