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  • February 2008
    • 'Kosher' Phones Block Porn

      'Kosher' Phones Block Porn

      (Newser) - Israel’s top phone company is betting that its most orthodox customers need less temptation in their lives. Bezeq Israel Telecom launched a “kosher” phone service yesterday that will block calls to and from “improper” numbers, such as porn lines. In true kosher fashion, Israel’s top rabbis have approved the restrictions, Reuters reports. More »

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      Israel   pornography   telecom industry   Judaism   kosher   orthodoxy

  • January 2008
    • What Makes a Black Sellout ?

      What Makes a Black Sellout ?

      (Newser) - A black intellectual's new book, Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal , goes easy on Clarence Thomas for dissing the very affirmative action that helped him succeed, Salon 's James Hannaham writes. Does that make Sellout author Randall Kennedy a sellout? Maybe Kennedy is able to do what free-thinking blacks must: "separate what we think from what our comrades of color expect us to believe,” Hannaham writes. More »

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      race   African Americans   affirmative action   Clarence Thomas   black   orthodoxy

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