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In honor of the forthcoming convention of Chabad-Lubavitch shluchim, we herewith offer 3 items related to Chabad which you may have missed:

1) The September edition of New Voices, which they title "The Lubavitch Issue." Our very own Anarchist Rabbi Captain Sholom Keller is featured on the cover with an extensive interview:

2) Tanya in the comix (in the pocket of a Rubashkin yet!), by the talented Eli Valley(http://www.evcomics.com/). See the bottom right frame:

3) A Rubashkin-related story you may not have heard of : A shliach arrested on alleged sex abuse charges with a 13 year old boy:

May Chabad continue with their glorious work until giluy Melech haMoshiach, AMEN!

PS: To the Rebbe-philic cows out there - this is about Chabad, NOT the Rebbe (this time), so do not delete. Unless you consider "Chabad" as synonymous with cyanide & exposure to it (spiritual) suicide…

I am imagining her in a Red Sox uniform, pitching against the Yankees, being stormed in a bench clearing brawl.

Eri Yoshida was drafted for a new independent league that will launch in April, drawing attention for a side-armed knuckler that her future manager Yoshihiro Nakata said was a marvel.

"I never dreamed of getting drafted," Yoshida told reporters Monday, a day after she was selected to play for the Kobe 9 Cruise.

"I have only just been picked by the team and have not achieved anything," she said. "I want to play as a pro eventually in a higher league."

Yoshida, 155 centimetres (five feet) tall and weighing 52 kilograms (114 pounds), says she wants to follow in the footsteps of the great Boston Red Sox knuckleballer Tim Wakefield.

- from yahoo! news

In today's NYT: 

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/fashion/16playgirl.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin

"They aspired to bring Playgirl back to its roots, back to a time when the magazine covered issues like abortion and equal rights, interspersing sexy shots of men with work from writers like Raymond Carver and Joyce Carol Oates."

 "The women’s dreams crashed when Blue Horizon Media, which also puts out hard-core magazines, announced it was shutting Playgirl. The last issue, dated January/February 2009, recently arrived on newsstands."

 " Playgirl’s passing certainly will not be lamented as would the death of a more respected, or even a mildly respected, magazine. Yet for its writers and fans, something tangible has been lost in its closure."

“It was almost a way to get back at Playboy,” said Pamela Des Barres, the famed former rock groupie, who wrote a music column for Playgirl. “It was a great idea, and it could have been done better. It did offer women a way to see some gorgeous hot, young, sexy guys, and nothing’s wrong with that.”

“I think a different kind of porn is very degrading to women, but the kind of stuff we were peddling was about what women wanted,” said Ms. Caldwell, who is 26. “For better or worse, this was a real blow for feminism. We were the only magazine that offered naked men to women.”

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VIGILANTE OYZ IN THE 'HOOD

I want to see the Norman Lamn essay on this. Or, raise the dead and see how Reb Moishe and J.B. Soloveitchik pontificate…

Literature Professor Joy Ladin, formerly known as Jay Ladin, 47, showed up for her first day of school sporting pink lipstick, a purple shirt and a black skirt. She cheerfully strutted through the doors of the Midtown campus’ main building, where she oversees the writing center.

Many at the Jewish university are horrified by the presence of the transgender professor. Some fear the news could cut alumni donations.

full story at VosIzNeias

hat tip WPLJ's Labor Day Weekend Top 500 Countdown

Maneater - Hall & Oates

 We intend to have a Thursday night cholent on the playa. If not Thursday then Friday night. If not Friday night then for shaleshides.Whoever would like to write a kvitel to be placed at the feet of the Man or at the Temple, write it here & I will have it written out to put there.As known, the Temple at Burning Man is a mokoym kodoysh, where thousands of kvitlach, messages etc. are left. They burn the Temple Sunday night, the night after the Man. This year's Temple looks awesome.If I have access to the internet on the playa, I'll try to post here some updates so everyone can be mitstaref in this awesome experience. Pray for me, that it shall be nichnas b'sholom v'yotzoh b'sholom.  If I don't make it, you may curse me at my funeral & cast my bones to the vultures. Thanks in advance. YadadadadadaDA!!!! http://www.burningman.com – Z.I.Y.          

I don't know why there's a big deal about Kafka having subscribed to pornography, with Time magazine's Verbatim exclaiming

'Finally the literary stylite has fallen from his pedestal and is as much a sinner as you or I.'

ULRICH WEINZIERL, Franz Kafka scholar, on the revelation that the writer subscribed to highbrow pornography

There was a piece in the New Yorker years ago where the author interviewed a Prague prostitute Kafka supposedly frequented. The ninety year old women offered to show the author the vagina which Kafka shtupped for a few kroner which the author promptly paid to see this most interesting knish (- that's what Henry Roth calls the vagina in Call it Sleep).

A Charedi friend of mine removed hundreds of notes from the Men's and women's sections at the Kosel.

The men overwhelmingly asked for blessings and goodwill for themselves and their families.

The women overwhelmingly asked for bad things to happen to other families and not even requesting anything good for themselves.