“Israelis who move to the United States tend to be secular and to have little patience with the Israeli rabbinate…”
Israelis who move to the United States tend to be secular and to have...
Monthly Archives: November 2015
“As cities move beyond recycling paper and metals, and into glass, food scraps and assorted plastics, the costs rise sharply while the environmental benefits decline and sometimes vanish”
As cities move beyond recycling paper and metals, and into glass, food scraps and...
“What was a cultural monolith fragmented into many niches, and the official language of hose gave way to a Babel of vernacular”
Those people who find hosiery a pain are free to renounce it, while those...
“…remove words in such a manner that no one would notice that anything has been removed”
…remove words in such a manner that no one would notice that anything has...
“With an earful of foam, rush hours become office hours, but quieter still”
To use Mack’s Soft Foam Earplugs, you roll them like boogers between your thumb...
“’Do you know who I am?’ suggests self-preening, a public sort of dismissal”
“Do you know who I am?” suggests self-preening, a public sort of dismissal. It...
“…it’s unsettling to encounter a prospective leader whose persona is so conspicuous and well defined and yet whose core is so obtuse”
Trump might be the single most self-involved yet least introspective person I have ever...
“Cascade holds the distinction of being the first American-produced flavoring hop, utilized to impart a unique flavor profile in the beer”
By the 1970s, the main United States bittering hop was a strain called Cluster,...
“…American liberalism had a lot of the South in it”
After slavery had ended and Reconstruction gave way to the Jim Crow system, the...
“A professor needs to be a professor in a classroom, and a rabbi needs to be a rabbi when officiating at a wedding but neither needs a title on vacation”
A doctor needs to be a doctor around patients but not at a shul...