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Tucson, Arizona Jewish Community Center presents Rabbi Jack Cohen on dating: from 1st until forever

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Dr. Jack Cohen

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we get into today's presentation, you get a little flavor of what's my background. I was born in Cairo, Egypt to a Sephotic father whose family came from Syria by way of Syria, Jerusalem to Cairo. And my mother's family is Ashkanaz. They ran away from the Russian revolution. My grandfather uh in 1920 and made it to Cairo. Very interestingly, my mother's last name was Saloweski. all her friends were Ashkenazi last names and they all talked to each other in Arabic or French. So, uh, I we grew up. I was in Egypt during the six- day war and the IDF basically destroyed within a couple of hours the entire air force of the Egyptian air force and that led to a crisis cuz the the dictator at the time felt he needed to get revenge and he just went about the task of arresting every Jew, my father included, with the idea to execute them all. Thank God through the American intervention of Nathan Leuen, a great lawyer out there who helped Rubkin get out of jail, commuted his sentence with President Trump, we were able to get out. Unbeknownst to me, by the way, was my father-in-law was sitting in a tank for the IDF intelligence. He's been in six campaigns already at this game, listening to every conversation between Nasser and Assad. He was born in Baghdad. He's fluent in every Arab dialogue dialect and he was

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  1. 0:00we get into today's presentation, you get a little flavor of what's my background. I was
  2. 5:47really good, but should I settle and buy now? Let's go up to floor number three."
  3. 12:17Yeah, sure. We could pull that off in Hollywood without a problem. We just need six
  4. 18:01looks up to heaven. She says, "But God, where's the LA cap he was wearing?" This
  5. 23:59who's also like her bal chuva coming around he's studying at the yeshiva right next to
  6. 30:27if you've traveled in France, Big Yeshiva next to the Swiss border and he's now enrolled.
  7. 36:15Freriedman teaches a principle you have to understand in order to realize what creates breakdown in
  8. 42:09ourselves, if we're down on ourselves, if we are critical, self-critical of ourselves, it's very detrimental
  9. 48:06didn't see the black cup of coffee. This is telling the mother of the kala. Anyway,
  10. 54:08year and a half, they come back later, they come back to court. He reduces it

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