All posts by sarke
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Yesterday’s Gone, Yesterday’s Gone: Facing Tomorrow One More Time
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…
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)
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...
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Wanted: Your Small Change
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
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
Here’s the thing. I’ve been thinking about poor Helen Thomas, who IÂ believe was probably just saying what everyone thinks and has therefore been made a...
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We are the World (in Blue and White)
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...
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Shmini
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...
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Psalm for the Sabbath, 2.0
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...
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Stressing re: Cross-Dressing
“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...
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Big in J.A.P.an
(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...
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On J.A.P.s, Journeys, Maccabees, and Cable TV
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...
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Suburbadox Paradox: Something Larger, Tiny Place
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...
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In the Beginning…There was Fall.
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...
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To Do (Tomorrow): Have a Happy New Year
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...
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