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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...