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    Yesterday’s Gone, Yesterday’s Gone: Facing Tomorrow One More Time

    By on June 25, 2011

    I have been thinking about tomorrow, and not just because they told me not to stop. Actually, as historian Niall Ferguson noted at Jerusalem’s recent...

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    Three Rabbis Walked Into a Bar…

    By on February 4, 2011

    Is there a “mitzvah” to be environmentally aware? Are Internet affairs the same as regular ones, in the Jewish view? How’s a Jew supposed to...

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    TEDx Talpiot (Or: Very Smart People Doing Something Huge for the World)

    By on November 16, 2010

    A world renowned physicist, a brilliant bio-tech founder, and a celebrated science biographer walk into a Hillel house… and raise the bar. The recent TEDx...

  • Wanted: Your Small Change

    By on July 8, 2010

    It’s a funny thing about sarcasm and writers / artists: Often it’s only on paper. Meaning, razor edged wit is a weapon of choice, but...

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    Change the Conversation

    By on June 24, 2010

    It’s time we changed the conversation, like Bret Stephens does in this great clip. (HT: Elie Klein.) While I am proud to be part of...

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    Get the Hell Out of…My Face

    By on June 8, 2010

    Here’s the thing. I’ve been thinking about poor Helen Thomas, who I believe was probably just saying what everyone thinks and has therefore been made a...

  • We are the World (in Blue and White)

    By on April 15, 2010

    Prof. Linda Allen contacted Shlock Rock’s Lenny Solomon’s at the beginning of last year. She had heard his original composition, Ani Yehudi (lit: “I Am...

  • Shmini

    By on April 9, 2010

    I know this isn’t supposed to be an artsy poetry blog. I am meant to be irreverant and hip, or as much of those as...

  • Psalm for the Sabbath, 2.0

    By on March 19, 2010

    Just in case you missed it on Twitter or Facebook, tomorrow (March 20th) has been declared the National Day of Unplugging by Reboot, a “a growing...

  • Stressing re: Cross-Dressing

    By on March 7, 2010

    “Please: Do *not* send pix. Really.” It’s been about a week since Purim, but I am still thinking about my broad shouldered and hairy (male) neighbors...

  • Big in J.A.P.an

    By on February 2, 2010

    (Cross-posted at my blog) (…Tx for teaching me protocol, V.) Travel literature (or film), when boiled down to its essence, is almost always about some combination...

  • On J.A.P.s, Journeys, Maccabees, and Cable TV

    By on December 18, 2009

    I just finished reading a great and entertaining memoir  by Lisa Fineberg Cook, a self-aware, spoiled, very smart and funny Jewish girl from LA who...

  • Suburbadox Paradox: Something Larger, Tiny Place

    By on October 29, 2009

    Months ago, I e-mailed a friend (let’s call him Earl) about who-remembers-what. Earl is also a writer, and in addition, works in photography, film, and...

  • In the Beginning…There was Fall.

    By on October 13, 2009

    Now the year gets serious. And stays that way for about 5 months. In Israel, The Day After Sukkot, until about Purim, is the window...

  • To Do (Tomorrow): Have a Happy New Year

    By on September 18, 2009

    The New Year’s wishes fill my inbox and the apple crumble is cooling, but I’m not that ready, and I’m not that into it. A...

  • Summer Prayer of a Hebrew Redneck Wannabe

    By on August 3, 2009

    Every summer, right in the hot, soft belly of July/August, I’m hit with it in the head, like the skillet of an angry housewife: the...

  • Bad Energy, and Soup in a Tupperware

    By on July 29, 2009

    Heeeey there. It's been more than a month (closer to two) since I've blogged. The reason can be distilled into one intense truth: I will...

  • 9 Things I Learned at Affilicon ’09

    By on June 3, 2009

    Kudos to Itay Paz and his Affilicon crew. That was one well-oiled (well-coffeed?) machine of a conference. My favorite thing (seriously, I’m sentimental this way): A charging station...

  • God’s Top Ten – and Mine…

    By on May 28, 2009

    Have you ever considered WWYHDTM (What Would You Hand Down the Mountain?) I had some thoughts on the matter in honor of Shavuot… http://the-word-well.com/gods-top-ten-wwyhdtm.html Those...

  • Mug Shot

    By on May 19, 2009

    (ck says: Jump right in, no need to introduce yourself.) …So: The Pope. Again. I have just one more thing to say about it: I’m really jealous of...