Delay
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....
Omri at the Garden
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...
Claiming J.D. Salinger (1919-2010)
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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The Best Nation
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...
Happy New Year from TFR
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...
D'var Torah
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...
Westside Market not so clever sometimes.
by Adam | Sunday 3 May 2009
Things My Mother Sends Me
by Adam | Wednesday 8 April 2009
Is the Pope Catholic?
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...
Passover
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,...
A Moment That Struck
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...
Sea of Galilee
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...
Ho Ho....
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....
Divine Intervention
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...
Always in Jeopardy
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...