Motzash Mishegaas
- Abbas: Hamas will chill the f*ck out.
- Harry Taylor expresses the sentiments of countless Americans to Bush during a Q&A session. Check out the original video to see the unedited version. Bush ignores everything Taylors says other than to justify domestic wiretapping which he claims is exclusively used to monitor incoming calls from al Qaeda. AG Alberto Gonzales tells a different story.
- The White House isn’t denying that it leaked classified information. Rather it’s defending the move as legal!
- Must read: Pacifca Radio’s Anthony Lappé on why The US has lost in Iraq.
- US considering nuking Iran.
- Jesus miracle on thin ice?
- Your Modern Orthodox children are all high on drugs.
- TDS on the latest scientific study debunking the efficacy prayer: Video. Here’s to hoping the Week of Prayer and Action for Darfur was less prayer and more action.
- Jewish Week on Matis/JDub split.
- Montana’s Shawn Stuart: The Republicans’ first self-identified Nazi candidate?
- The Jewish Journal offers Ten Contemporary Plagues.
- Creationists suffer setback with new scientific discoveries. But they ain’t listening anyhow.
- Eminemulator E-shy asks: “What’s the difference between Blacks and Jews?”
re: Harry Taylor – the guy who stood up and spoke back to Bush: check out this photo comparison
http://headonradionetwork.com/2006/04/06/head-on-radio-special-report-from-charlotte-nc
You left out the appointment (upon approval by the Board) of Dr. Arnold Eisen to Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary. See Forward and Wikipedia bio (also, it is worth someone changing/making nice Richard Joel’s Wikipedia bio)
uh, no i didn’t…the rooftopper rav blogged it yesterday
Sorry mobe. Missed it.
As far as “scientific studies” debunking the efficacy of prayer, I actually researched real studies on the subject and wrote a research paper in the Fall for my class Health Psychology. And at least in the world of legitimate psychological studies that are published in real psychological journals, prayer does have measureable benefits.
I would put links to a few such studies, but as far as I know, they’re only available for free from the campus network. But if anyone is actually interested to read a couple such studies, I guess I could email you. Let me know.
my belief is that prayer is more effective for the person praying than for the people being prayed for…do these papers support this idea?
Yep, that’s exactly what the studies focused on, how the individual was affected by their own prayer or other spiritual practices. And funny thing is, a couple of them focused on prayer/spiritual practices before and after open-heart surgery, which I think was the theme of the study in that Daily Show clip.
The school in the drug bust is not modern orthodox, CES-JDS is conservative.