Daily Archives: August 15, 2010

The Only Twitter Feed I Read

Skip Bayless! I’ve been reading this guy’s sports columns since high school. He’s the only sportswriter I follow closely. Over breakfast most weekday mornings, I watch his commentary on First Take.

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Sending Icebreakers On Frumster

So I just tried out Frumster for the first time. I used these search criteria: Age 25-45, anything goes. Divorced with kids, never married, whatever. I can’t believe how much anxiety I am feeling. It was like being at an … Continue reading

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Perv Rabbi Gets Special Meals

I want Jewish prisoners to be able to eat kosher meals, but when they make these kind of extra demands, I feel ambivalent. The New York Post reports: A rabbi convicted of sexually abusing a teenage boy has his kosher … Continue reading

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Cold Showers

I get up every weekday at 5:56 a.m. when my alarm sounds and I stumble into the shower and turn on a stream of cold water for 60 seconds (70 seconds when I am feeling particularly hardy). As I stood … Continue reading

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Congregants Stand By Randy Rabbi

As I pointed out in my previous post, Rabbi Marc Schneier was not engaged in illicit behavior when he was photographed in Israel kissing a comely speech pathologist not his wife. Rather, the good rabbi was engaging in routine and … Continue reading

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