“…many who had written off Matisyahu just a few years ago held him up once again as an icon of Jewish pride as if they had been there all along…
This past week Matisyahu returned to the headlines because of his performance in Spain...
Monthly Archives: August 2015
“Whether it’s from mere discomfort around women or buried chauvinism, the reality is that most men relate best to male leaders”
For better or for worse, men like their boy’s clubs. They’re attracted to environments...
“…nonarousing emotions like contentment are negatively associated with sharing selfies or other content”
Much of the research on selfies reveals that (surprise!) people who take a lot...
“In the same way you do not have to be a professional driver to drive, you no longer have to be a professional publisher to publish”
…individual weblogs are not merely alternate sites of publishing; they are alternatives to publishing...
“Professional self-conception and self-defense, so valuable in ordinary times, become a disadvantage in revolutionary ones…”
Professional self-conception and self-defense, so valuable in ordinary times, become a disadvantage in revolutionary...
“When we make an inventory of the topics addressed in Rabbinic stories, we see that the Rabbis discussed a large number of events connected with the Jewish past during the ancient period”
When we make an inventory of the topics addressed in Rabbinic stories, we see...
“In any profession, … members have a tendency to equate provisional solutions to particular problems with deep truths about the world”
In any profession, particularly one that has existed long enough that no one can...
“The Jewish community of the land of Israel no longer had a recognized social elite or “establishment,” and the Jews of the diaspora no longer had a center that bound them together. This was the vacuum the rabbis tried to fill”
In 70 C.E., the temple was destroyed, the high priesthood and the sanhedrin ceased...
“Members of the Marvel security team on the set spoke of ‘bloggers’ the way Dick Cheney once invoked a ‘global terror network'”
Members of the Marvel security team on the set spoke of ‘‘bloggers’’ the way...
“The Web didn’t introduce a new competitor into the old ecosystem…. The Web created a new ecosystem”
The newspaper used to be a pretty good answer to that question, but like...