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Martin Bodek

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June 2011


Martin Bodek is co-founder of TheKnish.com - a Jewish version of The Onion. He is the beat reporter for JrunnersClub.org, an emerging Brooklyn-based organization for athletes. He researches surnames for Jewishworldreview.com (e-mail onsurnames@gmail.com with yours and he'll do the legwork for you!). He has been writing freelance for more than 15 years for The Denver Post, The Washington Times, The Jewish Press, bangitout.com and other sites and media outlets as well as Germany's only weekly Jewish newspaper, The Judische Allgemeine. He was born and raised in the wilds of Brooklyn, New York, has worked most of his life in the badlands of New York City and settled in the jungles of northern New Jersey with his strong wife and three above aver ...more

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Martin Bodek Since receiving your question this morning, I've pondered how best to answer this concisely, which is impossible. I'll be succinct by presenting my th…moreSince receiving your question this morning, I've pondered how best to answer this concisely, which is impossible. I'll be succinct by presenting my thoughts in five ways: 1) Allow me to re-stress that my arguments against Kelemen are against his arguments, not what he's arguing for. I agree with what he's arguing for, but it can be argued better. 2) I believe in God, but I don't believe that what we do in his name is correct. He may have had other ideas entirely, but ha'aretz nosan lifnei adam, right? 3) Very easy arguments can be made that the earth was created by committee. Why commit ourselves to a single God? I have never found the arguments against this concept to be worthy. Rather, I have found them dismissive. 4) My opinion is ever-evolving, and rarely is fixed in place. I prefer to be unsure. Better for the thinking mind. 5) Finally, this funniest clip from a very bad movie, Hail Ceasar!, puts it perfectly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGpsX.... The final scene has him substituting the line with "It's complicated." It is.(less)
Martin Bodek I don't. My head is so abuzz with so many ideas that I've accumulated over the years, that I feel I'll never have a shortage of anything to write. I m…moreI don't. My head is so abuzz with so many ideas that I've accumulated over the years, that I feel I'll never have a shortage of anything to write. I may get stuck penning the perfect phrase or sentence or paragraph, but I'll never have a shortage of topics to write about.(less)
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