Martin C. Winer

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… The Israeli accent is a great accent to fake at a bar.
(Israeli Accent)
“Hey Baby, I’m going to pre-emptively attack you by asking for your phone number before I even say hello…”
(normal accent)
It always works like a charm! How can any female argue with that?!
(beat)
However, there are a few disadvantages to the accent. The problem [...]

Imagine a historian 500 years from now constructs the following proof. “The culture of 1960′s widely accepted homosexual activities. Evidence can be found in the theme song of a popular cartoon of the era, ‘The Flintstones’. This is a cartoon involving the implied homosexual activities between the two male lead characters Barney and Fred with [...]

I’m currently reading: “Did God Have a Wife?” by William Dever. In it he mentions the literacy rate of the ancient Israelites.
From page 28:
“… Writing does not become widespread before the 8th century B.C., and then the coprus indicates only what I would call “functional literacy.” That is, a number of people could [...]

PDF Version: AncientInjustice.pdf
Growing up, my Jewish education consisted of an after school program (‘cheider’ to the Yiddish inclined) while I attended public school by day.  On my walk to Hebrew School I would often try to marry the two bodies of knowledge from the two respective school systems.  A happy romance occurred around 1987 between [...]

Theo Koffler and her organization Between Four Eyes uses Mindfulness as a tool to escape our circumstances and past and set out anew on a path towards peace.

Many of us, at one time or another, have contemplated how to go about effecting world peace. With time, most of us relegate wishing for world peace to [...]