Category Archives: Personal

‘I Can’t Talk To You Anymore’

I said that to a woman this year after we had been very close. I was that hurt after learning she had been with someone else when I had thought she was all mine. Guru Singh (formerly Gerry Pond) says: … Continue reading

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Torah Lessons

When I won’t send the requisite emails begging for payment, my boss says, "Fine. I’ll pay you in Torah lessons."

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If Rav Schachter Says March, They March

I was fascinated by the Meir Kin case. Not the messy details of the divorce, but the side issue of three Modern Orthodox shuls in Pico-Robertson repeatedly sending their members to picket outside the home of Meir Kin’s parents. I … Continue reading

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Whooooops!

I was sending torried emails today to a woman who’d just given me her email address over the phone. But I misspelled the address and got back this reply from a name I did not recognize: "Call you "Daddy"? Haha…right. … Continue reading

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Bored In Shul?

Erica Brown writes for The Jewish Week: Bored in synagogue? Bored in Hebrew school? Bored of the same old brisket?” The High Holy Days are fast approaching, and for many people the thought of spending meaningless, marathon hours in a … Continue reading

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