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My Sweet Lord

Friends, Apologies for the early dearth of material; they've got me running around the country through fifteen hour days and early mornings (my bane). I never thought I'd say this, but I can't wait until the Sabbath when I'll have...

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Entry Point: Things Are Bad Here

Israel is all grown up. Gone is that diminutive little Ben Gurion Airport where you'd arrive and wobble down the steps of the plane, perhaps level your lips with the concrete of the tarmac, and crowd a tram to the...

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Greetings from Newark!

Dear Friends: I’m writing you from the fluorescent underbelly of Newark Liberty International Airport. My attempts to find an officious-looking picture of Corey Booker have failed. The international terminal has just erupted into cheers for United States football heroics just...

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PresenTense Plug

The people over at PresenTense do good work. The righteous kind. They also publish good work so be on the look out for the next issue of the mag featuring a piece by yours truly on Omri Casspi, basketball extraordinaire...

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Required Reading/Reflected Intellection

In advance of my trip to the Middle East (tick tock), my spiritual and literary sensei suggests: Just stick with Naipaul and Kapucinski. Not their attitudes, which you can take or leave, but the way they deal with historical space,...

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Drunk on TheGloss

My latest on TheGloss: opportunity to call all the women there sexist. Yes, this may have been written in the booze-addled aftermath of the U.S.'s improbable tie with Slovenia in the World Cup. You can likely pinpoint where the gin...

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Urban Dictionary

From the annals of urbandictionary.com: merkin: Something george bush is constantly saying he is proud to be "ah am proud, to be a merkin citezin"...

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You're Welcome

Good customer service is afoot over at TheGloss....

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Birthday Weekend

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Freebie

If you know me (I think at least some of you out there do), you probably know that I'm finishing a book. I try to refrain from using it as an excuse for a lack of substantial posts on TFR,...

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