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A Data-Driven Eulogy for a Data-Driven Life
“Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field of ...
What the Kids are Doing With Their Lives
I realized late in life that my parents weren’t your typical Baby Boomers. My dad wasn’t anti-establishment. My mother wasn’t a feminist. ...
Ending the Day
Often I find I need some time at the end of the day to reflect on the day, calm my ...
How Should We Talk About Science and Religion?
As someone who loves both religion and science, I often struggle with how they interact.Are they in opposition to each ...
Footnote: Finally a Movie that Understands Academia
It’s tough out there for an Israeli film at the Oscars. When an Israeli film gets nominated for best foreign ...
Autumn in His Heart
I’ve thought a lot about Isaac Babel’s lovely characterization of the Jew as a man with “[s]pectacles on his nose and ...
What rights do we have to our soul?
Last week, while checking in on the latest articles on the Religion page of the Huffington Post, the following headline ...
It’ll be Good….
These days the pundits and analysts say that the peace process is over. Remember Oslo? Remember the Roadmap for Peace ...
Moses and Hubris
There’s a great Seinfeld episode–and one I relate to–in which George Constanza worries that he must have cancer because his life ...
An Unorthodox Shiva Minyan
The important thing is not how many separate injunctions are obeyed but how and in what spirit we obey them. ...
The Comedienne
One of the strange things about having your first book come out is that you think you’ve written one thing, ...
Magnifying Life
Two weeks ago I wrote about the tragic loss of little Ayelet Galena z”l. I discussed how one young life ...
Hysteron Proteron
And Moses read the Book of the Covenant to the people and they said “All that God has commanded we ...
The Ghost
My fascination with New Mexico began in 2007, when I moved to Albuquerque sight unseen to write my first novel, ...
The Singularity vs. the Gift of Death
“A gift is something that cannot appear as such.” – Jacques Derrida, The Gift of DeathAnd God came down to ...