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Thursday, December 4th, 2008 by Ari

If it weren’t for the Onion’s crossword puzzle and the boring part of a class this morning, I never would have learned that Hustler is making a porno parody based of Sarah Palin. It is entitled Nailin Paylin.

All I can say is drill baby drill!

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the direct approach

Thursday, December 4th, 2008 by Ari

Rabbis very rarely try the direct approach when it comes to making halakhic (legal) rulings, but when they do the results are often hilarious. (from hirhurim).

He [R. Hershel Schachter] told a story about a student who asked him whether he (the student) was allowed to hug his great-aunt. R. Schachter said it was permitted (and that R. Mordechai Willig had previously told the student the same) but the student went on to ask R. Moshe Feinstein. He returned to R. Schachter to ask for a translation of R. Feinstein’s Yiddish response. R. Feinstein had told him something like “Zein nisht kein na’ar”, which R. Schachter translated as “Don’t act like an idiot”

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