by Adam | Thursday 5 April 2012
My latest: the story of the South African Jewish exodus to Houston, Texas. Read all about it here. This week, as tables across the globe become the gathering point for Passover Seders, one implicit note will be the regenerating narrative...
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by Adam | Friday 16 March 2012
My most recent article for Tablet, about a group of non-Israeli IDF vets, is up. OMG check it out here! Some of the members also interact with Israeli-born IDF veterans who have since moved stateside—but again, their experiences are not...
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by Adam | Saturday 24 December 2011
by Adam | Friday 16 December 2011
My latest for Tablet about the political orthodoxy at Hebrew Union College. With this, I firmly put to death the dreams my mother had about my becoming a rabbi. Sorry marm. The division between the old guard and at least...
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by Adam | Wednesday 9 March 2011
My sister sent me this piece in Tablet by Elizabeth Wurtzel (of all sorts of fame/notoriety) about the nature of artists, the meanness of Jewish male ones, and some other brainy meditations. Perhaps what's most fun about it is the...
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by Adam | Tuesday 7 December 2010
This is the end of Jewish continuity. From the JTA: A new Jewish online dating site allows parents to search for their children's bashert. The site, which was launched Tuesday, allows parents to browse for potential matches for their sons...
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by Adam | Sunday 9 May 2010
'Twas semi-recently named a Shapiro Fellow. This means a few things: 1. I'll be back in Israel at the end of June. And then Dubai. And then Turkey. And maybe a few others spots. 2. My handsome punim will soon...
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by Adam | Friday 2 April 2010
(Brisket on homemade matzah with matzah ball soup) Yesterday I explored the new neighborhood and tried out Mile End, a Montreal Jewish deli around the corner from me. They feature smoked meats (which is essentially the Montreal version of...
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by Adam | Monday 29 March 2010
Spend three minutes with Bradley Burston over at Haaretz for a poignant treat....
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by Adam | Monday 22 February 2010
Forgive my absence, I recently had a bout with food poisoning. A word to the wise: never let a Jewish girl make you shrimp paella. Even if she is from Florida. Somehow God was in the cards on this one....
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by Adam | Tuesday 16 February 2010
Author's Note: I generally don't write straight journalism (or gay journalism for that matter), but I initially did this piece for the Israeli paper Haaretz. The subject was double booked, so what you're about to read is what no one...
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by Adam | Friday 29 January 2010
Let me get this little bit out of the way right now: Louis Menand of The New Yorker wrote the following about "The Catcher in the Rye" ten years ago and I don't think it's been said any better...
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by Adam | Monday 25 January 2010
When a homeless person asks you "what's the best nation?" he or she is probably not waiting for you to say the United States of America. He or she would also probably not agree. If one is practiced in the...
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by Adam | Friday 18 September 2009
Apologies for another protracted absence. School started, a wedding happened, a bachelor party happened (but nothing of it really happened), um, I have a lot of excuses. On the topic of excuses, transgressions, other negligences: What's posted below was sent...
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by Adam | Saturday 30 May 2009
Not that this website has ever actually intended to serve a practical function, but...for my relatives who asked for a copy of my d'var torah from my sister's aufruf today, I offer it here: For those of you who were...
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by Adam | Sunday 3 May 2009
by Adam | Wednesday 8 April 2009
by Adam | Thursday 12 March 2009
Since college, I've been trying my absolute best to quell the part of me that typifies a Reactionary Jew, such a person who shouts at the wind and lives with perpetual high blood pressure because of the world's sinister movements...
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by Adam | Monday 21 April 2008
I am enclosed by people that I know, who made me possible somehow but I disguise them. I’ve begun to find tiny hair, weeds they Creep around my shoulders like an embrace tightening for the worst, dark constellations of ivy,...
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by Adam | Wednesday 23 January 2008
The first night we stayed at a hostel in Jerusalem that was somewhat removed from the city center. It was cold and foggy, but from my window I could see the lays of Mt. Herzl (think Israeli Arlington Cemetery) and...
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by Adam | Sunday 20 January 2008
Day Two: Jetlag Above the Kinneret, 6:44 A.M. I was stranded like a vessel on the water; I put faith in nature and set myself adrift, isn't that how all epics begin: a tide of repose and resignation, a tide...
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by Adam | Tuesday 18 December 2007
HOLD the ice...Santa is drinking his scotch straight tonight at the bar. Yes that's right, even with children at the far tables in the early hour, St. Nick came into the bar and drank himself some liquor on Saturday night....
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by Adam | Friday 6 April 2007
Yesterday I was in the midst of writing a particularly blasphemous posting about the Chipotle burrito and how I had an argument with someone about whether a tortilla should be considered chametz or not when suddenly my blatherings were...
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by Adam | Wednesday 21 March 2007
My apologies for my perforce lack of updates; I would cite excuses like I’ve been out of town, hearing back from grad schools, and having my soul bled out by the corporate system, but yeah, okay, so there are...
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