January 2007
4 posts
Vows
Bad news is everywhere, everywhere except the Times wedding section. Where else in the Sunday paper can you read about miracles, like divorced men remarrying and 30 year-old brides wedding 26 year-old bridegrooms? But the truth comes out in
Shalom, Israel
Before I get all sincere, has Julia Roberts made a good movie since Pretty Woman? Seriously, why is she such a big deal? When I left for Israel, I was very conscious of not becoming one of those birthright kids who returns from Israel an ardent Zionist with a new found connection to Judaism and can only describe the trip as amazing or life changing. In short, I didn’t want to be brain washed,...
Shalom, America
After blowing my 2006 vacation days in Italy, I’m off to spend my 2007 days in the holy land. I’m going on a 10-day birthright trip to Israel where I’ll be doing all sorts of neat stuff like riding camels and becoming a Zionist. My twin goals for the trip are not to get blown up and to avoid complete indoctrination.
The Value of a Liberal Arts Education: Possibly A...
In college, I took “History of the City of New York,” a class that basically involved a lot of field trips and reading about Robert Moses. The highlights were a midnight bike ride through Manhattan and Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities. The rhetoric about urban planning in TD