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Making resolutions: Don’t bite off more than you can chew

Andrew Goldstein October 9, 2016
They would always explain that if we take more difficult goals we tend to give up more easily. If we make things bite sized, we make it to our end goal step by step.
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Shomer negia: Why I dont touch women

Shomer negia: Why I don’t touch women

Andrew Goldstein February 23, 2016
I am not arguing that people who brush against, hold or caress the gender of their affection are bad or evil. This is a standard I am holding myself to.
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Closing NYC schools for Muslim holidays creates tension between religious groups

Tejen Shah April 7, 2015
Mayor de Blasio made NYC the first big city in the U.S. to close its schools in observance of two Muslim holidays, following suit of several smaller towns across the country.
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Why can’t we stop fighting?

Tejen Shah January 29, 2015
Religion is something that was created by mankind to do three things: keep people sane, make them easier to govern and give them a reason to unite as one people.
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High praise for the elimination of vacation holidays

Hillary Steinberg October 9, 2012

There are about 1,000 undergraduates who identify as Jewish at Stony Brook University, and I am one of them. My name is Hillary Steinberg, and if you are familiar with Judaism, you would assume I am Jewish...

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