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Interview with Daniel Levin, author of The Last Ember
As part of my normal Sunday morning trip to Costco, I like to head over to the book table to ...
The Second Coming of “My Jesus Year”
Benyamin Cohen, former editor of the sadly-demised American Jewish Life magazine, wrote a book called My Jesus Year. It detailed ...
Rent In Manhattan Is Expensive
I guess rent is expensive everywhere. But in Manhattan, especially, I would not wish these rent bills on my worst ...
Anticipating Day after Night
Next week, we’re going to have Anita Diamant, author of the new book Day after Night, blogging for us. It’s ...
A Golem in Brazil
The Apple in the Dark, Clarice Lispector’s fourth novel, was published in Rio de Janeiro in 1961, five years after ...
Wise Fridays: The Creativity of Loneliness
The originality and creativity in man are rooted in his loneliness-experience, not in his social awareness…Social man is superficial: he ...
Kids, You’re On Your Own
Wouldn’t this be a cool legacy? Imagine, when you died, to honor your life, the company you created ceased to ...
Buying Local in Jerusalem and Supporting Palestinian Farmers
MJL contributor and generally awesome person Leah Koenig has an article at Tablet right now about about a mini-shuk in ...
#GiladShalit
My morning routine is about the same every weekday: Drag my lazy butt out of bed. Feed the dog. Get ...
The Oldest Jews in Brazil
In his last blog, Benjamin Moser wrote about chasing Clarice Lispector around the world.In the oldest synagogue in the New ...
Hey, G*d! Where You At?
One of my rabbis used to tell me that everything we say can be a prayer — and, more than ...