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Jewish World Review

Jan. 7, 2008
Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.  —  Allan Bloom


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outlook
The Jewish Ethicist
By Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir

Q: I've heard the great sub-prime crisis was caused by predatory lending practices. Is it wrong for banks to lend to high credit-risk homebuyers?




reality check
Believe it or not, Bush
can still secure a legacy

By Barry Rubin

As the term's end looms closer, there's still time

4 books


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"Conversations with Yourself: A practical guide to greater happiness, self-development and self-empowerment"

The quality of your life is the quality of your on-going self-talk!

Most people unconsciously engage in internal self-talk, and in this series, best-selling author Rabbi Zelig Pliskin guides the reader to achieve conscious awareness of meandering mental chatter and to transform it into a steady stream of purposeful thought.

Today: ‘Ouch! My Ego Was Hurt! ’

[ JWisdom — Awesome Audio ]

NEW SERIES!
We all -- or, at least, most of us -- want to be VIRTUOUS. But how does one change from what he IS to where he wants to BE?

Some 300 years ago, a Hebrew-language book was published in Amsterdam that sought to give its reader a game plan to do just that. It spurred movements and hasn't been out of print since. The Book, "Mesilas Yesharim" ("Path of the Just") , answers all of the Big Questions a person of faith grapples with on a regular basis. Among them, "What is man’s obligation in his world?"And it does so in a style that is at once deep and yet practical.

Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski, the author of more than 50 books, and a regular contributor to JWR, has agreed to record a series of short audio classes (under 10 minutes each) that brings the wisdom of the centuries-old bestseller to an English-speaking contemporary audience who otherwise may have never gained from its valuable depth. A master of the spirit and the mind, he applies the timeless to the timely. The series begins today with an overview and a look at why "denial" is so central to our personalities --- and what to do about it.

You can listen to it by clicking HERE.

PLEASE give us feedback --- and spread the link!

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Andy Capp
Archie
9 to 5
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



Dry Bones
Robert Arial
Chuck Asay
Gary Brookins
Chip Bok
Paul Combs
J. D. Crowe
Bob Gorrel
Jake Fuller
Dick Locher
Scott Stantis
Wayne Stayskal
Dana Summers
Gary Varvel
Michael Ramirez

(Attention working columnists and editorial cartoonists: Think you have what it takes to be featured on JWR? Drop us a note by clicking here. Readers, please make suggestions, as well.)

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Bruce Williams on JWR: Insurance and the self-employed; more

Cory Franklin: Sophistry and Statistics

Jerry Bowyer: AD or ADD?

Bridget Johnson The GOP’s foreign-policy wasteland

Julia Gorin: George W. Bush has Left the White House

Judith A. Klinghoffer: An Ottoman warning for America



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Mark Steyn: It's the secular Left vs. the Christian Left

Argus Hamilton skewers politics and contemporary "culture"

Dave Barry: Invention clearly worth the brewhaha


HILLARY REPACKAGES HERSELF AS A BLACK MAN
Bold strategy to win New Hampshire
  —  Andy Borowitz


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Michael Goodwin: What Hillary still hasn't learned

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