Click Here to Read:  Locusts, Giraffes and the Meaning of Kashrut by Meir Soloveichik in Azure no. 23, Winter 5766,  2006.

Click Here to Read:  Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex? What happens to a country when its young people stop having sex? Japan is finding out… Abigail Haworth investigates on the Guardian website on October 19, 2013.

Arm’s length: 45% of Japanese women aged 16-24 are ‘not interested in or despise sexual contact’. More than a quarter of men feel the same way. Photograph: Eric Rechsteiner

Click Here to Read:  Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review Volume 9, 1. 1987 on Google Books.  For easier reading, you can download the PDF from this site.

Click Here to Read:  Dozens arrested in Nigeria after anti-gay law passes By Associated Press on The New York Post website on January 14, 2014.

Olumide Makanjuola, an executive director of the Initiative For Equality, speaks to AP reports in Lagos, Nigeria Tuesday. Photo: AP

Click Here to Read:  Urn containing Sigmund Freud’s ashes ‘severely damaged’ during attempted theft at Golders  Green Crematorium by Chris Hewett on the Local London Website on January 14, 2014.

Click Here to Read:  Report:  Suicide Rate Among Young Veterans Has Tripled The number of male veterans under 30 ending their own lives jumps by 44 percent in two years By Denver Nicks in Time Magazine on January 10, 2014.

Click Here to Read:  Christie’s aides were warned within hours that ‘Bridgegate’ lane closures were putting lives at risk . . . but they kept traffic snarled for FOUR DAYS, documents reveal By David  Martosky on the U.K. Mail Website on  January 10, 2014

New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie is under pressure following revelations that his administration may have closed highway lanes to exact political retribution against a Democratic mayor

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Click Here to Read:  Jewish Surnames Explained By Bennett Muraskin on the Lexington Valley blog on the Slate website.

Richard Andree’s 1881 map of the Jews of Central Europe.

Click Here to Read:   Why Psychoanalysis  Matters: It has taken a back seat to pop psychology, pills, and other therapies in recent years. But now, thanks to Tony Soprano (and new neuroscientific research), the “talking cure” is sexy again by Weny Dennis in the Walrus Magazine, September 2005 issue.