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News What’s With Jewish Politicians and Sex Scandals?
(JTA) — The guy with the socks up. The guy with the pants down. The guy with the headlocks. The guy who tweets and deletes. What is it with these male politicos? And why are they all Jewish? The cloistered community that is Washington’s Jewish elite collectively choked a little Saturday morning as it progressed…
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Life Personal Lubricants Now Kosher Certified
When the Oreo became kosher 15 years ago, the kosher-keeping world may have thought the milestone would be the climax of kosherization. As of yesterday, they would be wrong. Trigg Labs, the vanilla-sounding brand behind Wet sexual wellness products, has apparently spent the last two years undergoing a koshering process, according to the Herald Online,…
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Life Dressing Modestly for Me — Not Religion
Most women would do or pay anything to be that beautiful blonde in the bar, the one getting attention from all the men. And most women probably would not understand being blonde and voluntarily giving it up — covering up the blonde hair with a headscarf, voluntarily shedding the sexy outfit in favor of a…
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The Schmooze Why Drake Isn’t Having Sex
Poor Drake. Apparently, the Canadian rapper is so wrapped up in his creative process that he doesn’t have time for sex. Or at least that’s what he recently told GQ in their July 2013 issue. “You know the way fighters don’t f–k before the fight? Sometimes I feel like I’m so focused on training my…
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Fast Forward State Department Probes Howard Gutman Prostitution Allegations
The State Department said on Tuesday it was investigating allegations of sexual misconduct by overseas staff including a report that an ambassador patronized prostitutes after a leaked memo said the agency had ignored the misbehavior. CBS News this week reported it had obtained an internal State Department inspector general’s memo that said several investigations into…
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Fast Forward France May Drop ‘Pimp’ Charge on Dominique Strauss-Kahn
A French public prosecutor recommended on Tuesday closing an investigation into alleged sex offences in which former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn risks trial on a charge of “aggravated pimping”. It is now up to judges investigating the case to decide whether or not to drop the prosecution, the last legal proceedings the former Socialist presidential…
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Fast Forward Talk of Sex Gets Israeli Minister Shai Piron All Giggly
A reference to “penetration” in a speech to parliament caused Israel’s education minister to burst into a laughing fit that went viral on Tuesday on Israeli websites. Shai Piron, who is also a rabbi, could not get past the first sentence of his address, on a proposed law against smuggling cell phones into Israel’s prisons,…
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Opinion Let’s Talk About Not Having Sex
I believe in abstinence, at least personally, and I believe in Jewish law. So it makes sense to me that a Jewish organization that promotes both Jewish law and abstinence would create a website dedicated to teenagers and sex. That organization, the National Conference of Synagogue Youth, is the Orthodox Union’s youth movement, and the…
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