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  The subtitle is ‘An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships’, and it’s by the guy who wrote The Game, which wasn’t a book I’d heard of until I started reading this one but which sounds frankly disgusting. The Game was about how to get women, basically: a sleazeball’s go-to guide.
  The Truth is the flipside of the coin: Strauss’ own experience of actually falling in love with a real live woman, whom he therefore realised he wanted to treat like a human being, rather than a piece of ass.
  So, having realised he had some kind of problem, and that he needed to do something pretty drastic if he wanted to have any chance of saving his relationship, he booked himself into a rehab clinic for sex addicts.
  The Truth is what he learned during his time there, and his reflections on how his attitudes towards relationships changed.
  It’s a searingly honest book, one in which the author presents himself as the bad guy and owns up to all the darker parts of his past – both those he was responsible for, and some of the dark parts of his childhood that later affected his adult life. (And where do we draw the line between those things, anyway? Who knows?)
  “They say that when you meet someone and feel like it’s love at first sight, [you should] run in the other direction. All that’s happened is that your dysfunction has meshed with their dysfunction. Your wounded inner child has recognised their wounded inner child, both hoping to be healed by the same fire that burned them.”
  You’d be forgiven for thinking that this book is only relevant to people who have had the worst kinds of childhoods: abuse, neglect, etc. But actually, there’s something in everyone’s life that’s made them feel vulnerable, made them feel wanting. And sometimes it’s these things that drive us to make bad decisions about relationships. That’s one of the things this book does: demonstrates how Strauss’ own realisations about his childhood helped him to build better, healthier bridges with other people.
  It’s interesting to see a book about the powers of rehab written from the perspective of a cynic, as well. Strauss didn’t go in expecting anything much, and he often battled against the techniques that were being used in his therapy. But, in the end, it helped. Even if not all of it made sense, even if some of the therapists were crap – there were still things that could be taken and applied.
  You might not 100% buy in to something. You might think it’s a load of bollocks. But if there’s something in it that you can find useful, that can help mould your life into something better… well, then what’s the harm in seeing it through? So many things in life are a mixed bag. Personally, I’m all for picking and choosing.
  One of the things I particularly liked about The Truth was seeing the emotional growth throughout. Having started out from a jokey, blokey perspective, he comes to a few realisations that feel more… well, adult.
  “Only when our love for someone exceeds our need for them do we have a shot at a genuine relationship together.”
  I’m pretty sure the guy who wrote The Game would be horrified by that sentence. He’d see it as being a pussy, rather than chasing one, or something.
  And it’s important not to minimise how much courage it must have taken to write a book like this. Because the expectation of “traditional” masculinity in today’s society is a real problem, and one that negatively impacts men in ways that are detrimental to their health.
  In 2014 in the UK, the rate of suicide for men was 16.8 per 100,000 people. For women, it was 5.2 per 100,000. (source) There are many contributing factors to this disparity I’m sure, but one of the main ones is undoubtedly the way we expect men to be somehow emotionless. How we might take the piss out of a woman crying at her desk (which is an awful thing to do in the first place, of course), but we somehow aren’t surprised. But if a man breaks down and cries in the office… well, that’s another story.
  So Strauss’ book, which includes several instances of him breaking down completely whilst dealing with his past and present life, is an act of courage that shouldn’t be underestimated. Especially since The Game was popular enough for him to sometimes be recognised in the street.
  It was fascinating, as a woman who is frequently fucked off with watching the objectification of my gender, and experiencing creeps on a far too regular basis, to read a male perspective on this whole phenomenon. And to watch it changing.
  At one point, Strauss meets a woman called Shama Helena, who is a proponent of the polyamoury movement. The writer of The Game would no doubt have dismissed her as ridiculous and not worth his time, or as an exciting conquest. The writer of The Truth thinks more deeply about it, however.
  “Centuries ago, a woman like Shama Helena would probably have been burned at the stake… because women who were overtly sexual were thought to be witches in league with the devil. We’ve come a long way as a culture in five hundred years. Now, instead of calling them witches and killing them, we call them sluts and kill their reputations.”
  It’s refreshing to see a man – especially the kind of man who’d write The Game – starting to come to these realisations.
  “I realise that before trauma healing, I always wanted more – more women, more success, more money, more space, more experience, more possessions. Not once did I stop and say, as I do now, “I have enough.””
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  Yes, Jesus – Yeshua – was a rabbi, a teacher of Judaism in the first century A.D. But was he more than a rabbi?
  Why all the suffering in the world? Why isn’t there real and lasting peace? Why all the persecutions in the name of Jesus? Why don’t rabbis believe in him? Why doesn’t he say so? There is an answer for each of these questions, if you are interested. Of course, if you’re only looking to disprove…
  The New Testament should resonate with us Jews, not least because it reflects Jewish core values that are part of Jewish life to this day.
  I couldn’t help writing on Jesus. Since I first met him he has held my mind and heart. I grew up, you know, on the border of Poland and Russia, which was not exactly the finest place in the world for a Jew to sit down and write a life of Jesus Christ. Yet even…
  Most of our summer outreaches are over, and our campus outreach, High Holiday services and Fall Ingatherings are yet to come. Many people on our missionaries’ case loads are away for summer vacations. We are still continuing to do the work this month, but for many it’s a bit of a “breather.” What better time…
  Persecution in the name of Jesus is the most emotionally charged strand of the net of objections. More than anything else, many people point to Christian anti-Semitism” as a reason to dismiss Jesus. When Jewish people find themselves questioning whether Jesus might be the Messiah, thoughts of the Crusades and the Holocaust quickly rush to…
  First, let us consider the idea that Christianity was invented by Jesus’ followers (particularly by the Apostle Paul). Paul has been accused of intentionally distorting the teachings of Jesus in order to make Christianity more appealing to the gentiles. What information exists to prove or disprove this theory? It seems fair to presume that one…
  Gus was a nice guy. But he was also a pest. As a telecommunications engineer I could not have asked for a better co-worker. Gus was proficient and always in a good mood. As a Jew, however, I would have preferred that he talk about almost anything else while working by my side. He was…
  “Blessed Art Thou, O Lord Our God, Who Hast Not Made Me A Woman.” One need not be a member of a radical feminist association to feel insulted by such a statement! Does this traditional Jewish prayer reflect an inherent attitude of disdain toward women in the Jewish religion? If so, is the Bible…
  Sholem Asch stated (see Jesus in Jewish Art) that in his view, the authority of Yeshua was only for the gentiles because the Jewish people were already under the authority of the Torah. The dogma that the Torah is unchangeable, and forever binding to the Jewish people is commonplace in Orthodox Judaism. (The doctrine is…
  In the past several decades, a particular program of reclamation has been undertaken by the Jewish people. It does not involve the rejuvenation of the land, nor the replanting of trees. Instead, it is the reclamation of one whom many regard as Israel’s greatest native son: the reclamation of Jesus of Nazareth as, if nothing…
  Former French Justice Minister Rachida Dati may have been spreading nasty rumors about Nicholas Sarkozy's marriage to Carla Bruni. So Sarkozy took away her bodyguards, and her cell phone. Yes, France is apparently governed by eight-year-olds.
  Speculation has been brewing that Bruni and Sarkozy are both having affairs, Bruni with musician Benjamin Biolay and Sarkozy with Ecology Minister and "karate champion" Chantal Jouanno. Bruni has denied the rumors, stating unconvincingly that Sarkozy "'would never have affairs … Have you ever seen a picture of him having an affair?'' However, she also said, "'I guess marriage should be for ever but who knows what happens?" And before her marriage to Sarkozy, she told an interviewer, "Monogamy bores me terribly." It wouldn't be too surprising if Sarkozy and Bruni were cheating on one another, given that Bruni has slept with her baby-daddy's dad, Sarkozy started "courting" his now-ex-wife Cecilia when he officiated at her marriage to someone else, and, as the Telegraph's Cassandra Jardine points out, this is France.
  But that hasn't stopped Sarkozy — or possibly his friends — from punishing Dati. Now a member of the European Parliament, Dati supposedly spilled the beans on Bruni's and Sarkozy's dalliances, and now somebody has taken away all her privileges, including "her official car, chauffeur, bodyguards and smart phone." It could have been Sarkozy himself, in the past a political patron of Dati's (and maybe more — remember, this is France). Or, as Dati suspects, the order could have come from Sarkozy's friend Brice Hortefeux, an "enemy" of Dati's. Hortefeux apparently called Dati to apologize for the move, but she hung up on him, thus making the whole scandal sound even more like something from junior high.
  Of course, these are real grown-ups with real power, whose careers in the past have involved more serious issues than who's sleeping with who. Dati became the first Muslim woman to hold a top ministerial position in France in 2007 — though born into poverty, she's been criticized for her love of fashion and called "Rachida Barbie" (sounds a bit like Desiree Rogers). She was also lambasted for returning to work just five days after giving birth to her child (whose father was the subject of another whole rumor mill), and when she was finally ousted from her job as Minister of Justice, Margaret wrote, "it remains unclear if she was actually not performing her job as well as she could, or if the decisions she made in her personal life as a prominent female politician made her an easy target for criticism."
  The things that made her an "easy target for criticism" could make her a target for more serious things as well, and it seems irresponsible for Sarkozy (or his buddies) to remove her security detail at a time when she's facing high-profile accusations of gossip-mongering. Jardine claims that nobody in France really cares about infidelity rumors, but obviously Sarkozy cares — and if it's true that he's responsible for removing Dati's bodyguards, then he's sending a message that he values his image more highly than her safety. Presumably Dati will retain her own security, but as ludicrous as this episode is, it has a dark side: a powerful man supporting a woman only as long as she's useful to him, and then leaving her out in the cold.
  Thankfully for everyone involved, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are working through the details of their very messy divorce in private. As a result of this mature, adult decision, it seems Brad is able to spend more time with his kids.
  If you can remember the simpler times in our recent past when the divorce of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie felt like earth-shattering, revelatory news, you’ll certainly recall that everything that got out about their divorce sounded acrimonious and terrible. Angelina Jolie’s nanny threw her two cents at the Daily Mail. Accusations abounded about the public “learning the truth” about...something. Brad saw his kids for a brief amount of time over Christmas and Angelina was livid. Nothing about this has been pleasant, which is especially unfortunate given the fact that a divorce, much less a public one, is hard as hell on children and not terribly fun for the adults either.
  “Things seem much better now,” a source told People, noting that Pitt seemed “much happier” because he’s allowed to spend time with his children. “He has missed his kids terribly,” the source said. “The kids are his whole world. It’s all he cares about.”
  Good! I’m glad! Spend time time with your children, get divorced, live your life and everyone, let’s just move on.
  Just a few days after a Rolling Stone interview in which Paris Jackson, daughter of Michael Jackson and Debbie Rowe, shared with the world that “all arrows” point to the fact that her father was “absolutely murdered,” it’s clear that we probably won’t hear anything else about that particular bombshell anytime soon.
  In response to these tweets and the impression they might give the public about Paris in the aftermath of her interview, a source told People “Paris is doing great.”
  While I’m sure that’s true and I am very happy that she’s doing well, I will add my voice to that of Jezebel’s own Bobby Finger in saying as politely as possible, Paris, when you’re ready to speak more about your search for your father’s possible murderer, I am ready to hear it.
  Oh my goodness, Céline Dion, I am certainly ready for your European tour, I will see you in London(maybe???). Get back out on out there!! Yes!
  Well, we won’t have to worry about Matt Damon running for office anytime soon, though I’m not sure anyone was? [Page Six]
  Scarlett Johansson and her husband Romain Dauriac, a man I didn’t know existed until just now, are getting divorced. [People]
  I don’t care if Kim Kardashian is wearing hair extensions or not, I’m much more concerned with that faux lip ring. [Us Weekly]
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