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- From Jerusalem to the Backlot: The Two Careers of Sharon Waxman
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- Lynn Hunt and the Cultural Turn
- The Jewish Jesus and His Interpreters: Amy-Jill Levine and the Return of the New Testament to Second Temple Judaism
- The Keeper of the Dead: Timothy Snyder’s Hero System
- How Wide the We: David Hollinger and the Quarrel Over Solidarity
- The Anarchists’ Son in Perry Miller’s Chair
- Ruth Wisse Against the Schlemiel
- The Man Who Lived in the Conjunction: A Hero System Reading of Stephen J. Whitfield
- The Hero System of Literary Critic Robert Alter
- ‘The journey is over. Love to all.’
- The Private Case
- Eager to Fight: The Hero System of John Podhoretz
- The Hero System of Norman Podhoretz
- Cynthia Ozick’s Hero System: The Idol and the Word
- The Editor Who Decided What Survives: Jules Chametzky and the Hero System of the Canon
- Good Faith and Its Strangers: The Hero System of William Shernoff
- The Whistle in the Garden: Leo Marx’s Hero System
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* If Tatiana Schlossberg were “Tatiana Smith” (12-30-25)
* ‘I’m So Trained’: How The Credential Society Burned Down the Palisades (12-28-25)
* Status Closure and The Lost Generation (12-25-25)
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Category Archives: Personal
I’m Launching A Home-Study Telecourse In The Moral Application Of The Alexander Technique
In this special and limited, home study telecourse, spiritual teacher Dr. Rabbi Luke Ford will share, illuminate, instruct and transmit this core teaching of the Western Enlightenment path. Based on foundational principles of Integral Kabbalah, Esoteric Christianity, and Esoteric Islam … Continue reading
The Moral Application Of The Alexander Technique
I hate the Firefox brower. It took five minutes after my computer started up this afternoon for the damn thing to pop up on my screen. Normally this would be an occasion for me to use the F-word, but no … Continue reading
I Don’t Share The Excitement Over The Inauguration
I was stunned to find out today that a class I attend daily might not meet tomorrow so people could watch the inauguration. I don’t get it. I haven’t watched any inauguration. I’d be as indifferent to the inauguration of … Continue reading
Doing Yoga On A Sheepskin Mat
I went to a kundalini yoga lecture the other day on the virtues of vegetarianism. I noticed that many people people sat on sheepskin mats. I assume that many people walked to the program on leather shoes. I wear leather … Continue reading
I’m Live On My Cam
Click here to join the fun. ernieMadoff: You can’t choose not to be alone, not at this point, but you can choose not to be a Jew BernieMadoff: Now, I have a question about breasts BernieMadoff: I saw a photo … Continue reading
How Are You?
There are just a few minutes before Shabbat. I don’t have much spare time these days. Alexander Technique, acupuncture, yoga, therapy and commuting between these places take up about 40 hours a week. It doesn’t leave me much time to … Continue reading
A Blast From High School
Wow, I guess I better go look at an old picture. All my curves are gone now. I think its all lumps! Its funny how "stupid" we all are in our youth. Teens continually doubt themselves, saying "they’ll never like … Continue reading
The Long Ride Home From LimmudLA
My earlier report. (Complete Video) On the ride home, Joey Kurtzman says he used to drive an ambulance and was "trained in the art of defensive driving." Joey: "I chose the Journalistic Ethics class for the purest of reasons. It … Continue reading
High School Memories
From a girl I was in love with throughout Placer High School (we graduated in June 1984): I was cruising around Classmates and My Space, just thinking about some of the people I knew so long ago (and avoiding work) … Continue reading