For the next few weeks (begining Tuesday evening), the American PBS stations that carry the POV (Point of View) documentary series will take a peak at adoptions, and surprisingly, both the selected...
Author - larry
Unkosher tusch on a Jewish tisch?
While the rest of the universe enjoyed themselves at Camp Jewlicious, I kept busy catching up on my reading of critical Jewish News… news such as: Opening this weekend in North America is a...
From NORCs to NOJFFs
Perhaps you are familiar with NORCs, the town or neighborhoods that are Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities, places where all the young people have moved away, leaving the geography primarily...
It’s Expensive 2B Jewish
Last weekend, a New York City area talk-radio show that targets listeners in the Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish communities had a segment on what seems to be an increase of Ponzi scams, faked...
raMAD(an) MEN Road Trip
Meet Aman Ali and Bassam Tariq. Last year, for Ramadan, they visited 30 NYC mosques in thirty days and blogged about it. This year, for the month of Elul Ramadan, the two men will drive their Chevy...
A nose by any other…
shape would smell as well. I could not enter the weekend without one more tiny posting. Lea Michele, who plays the character of Rachel Berry on the popular Fox TV show, “Glee,” told Access Hollywood...
Eat Pray Love, Pray, and Then Eat Again
In North America this weekend, the film adaptation of the book, Eat Pray Love, opens with James Franco and Julia Roberts in the leads, as Elizabeth Gilbert suffers through a divorce and decides to go...
Listen to Your Mother
Columbia Business School professor, Sheena Iyengar, is a specialist in the art of choosing. She recently spoke at the TED conference LINK HERE on choice, task performance, and one’s...