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  1. Goldman Sachs (and everyone else listening) - reward shareholders and not executives: http://bit.ly/4h2n7u
  2. Is Asian thinking better suited for the future? http://bit.ly/1SLhPV
  3. Is blogging tzniusdik? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. http://tinyurl.com/ylr6cds
  4. Kind of nice but strange when really nice people you barely know invite you to two simchos in a short span.
  5. Breakthrough! The boy understands how to lein and can more or less teach himself. Nachas.
  6. RT @JewishPub How the anti-ebook user came to own a Kindle - http://tinyurl.com/yf9vw4g But what about Shabbos???
  7. Why Kitniyos is not allowed on Pesach: http://bit.ly/3AcfVF - http://bit.ly/2dIW1L - http://bit.ly/49JDPY
  8. @DovBear @kosheracademic Yes. Plus there was rampant corruption, which I think was counterintuitively caused by the lack of authority.
  9. Which is why it can decline, but that isn't a good thing. Think the Wild West of Jewish NY in the 1880s. @DovBear @kosheracademic
  10. WSJ: Gift cards are stupid. Just give cash: http://bit.ly/1oZBmb
  11. More employee privacy in corporate e-mail than you might think: http://bit.ly/29z1G4
  12. They have authority that was traditionally given to them as the local halakhic decisor @kosheracademic @DovBear
  13. @kosheracademic The authority of shul rabbis is under attack by left, right and themselves.
  14. @kosheracademic I gave it to a few people to read. I think I manage to offend everyone so I say it's a success.
  15. Just finished first draft of new paper tentatively titled "Decline and Fall of Rabbinic Authority"
  16. Jewish community hit hard by unemployment, even wealthy communities: http://bit.ly/2jKIh4
  17. Conservative Movement requires conversion of patrilineal Jews just like the Orthodox: http://bit.ly/4tZ8jf
  18. RT @jdforward: Bintel Blog: Orthodox Zornberg Receives Coveted Reform Award http://bit.ly/kcO3m
  19. RT @jdforward: The Shmooze: Costco Gets Into the Torah Business http://bit.ly/4CBMiG
  20. Great piece by @estherk on social media and J-orgs: http://bit.ly/LvGC8