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Does idealism have to be corny?
Joyeux Noel is a corny movie. It tells the story of how, during World War I, German, Scottish and French troops agreed to a truce to celebrate Christmas. Although it is based on real events, the movie is corny because it contains schmaltz that isn’t believable. A German private in the trenches just so happens…
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At the very moment we are about to conclude the reading of the Torah, a project that we have worked on relentlessly and religiously for the past year, we grab another Torah scroll and lay it down and, without so much as a pause, start again. Simchat Torah means that learning never stops, and it…
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Muammar Gaddafi Mosque, Kampala, Uganda
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Jacmel, Haiti
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The only good reason to write a book is that you can’t not write that book. Ta-Nehisi Coates tweeted something like this at some point, but I can’t find the cite!
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The Meaning of Life Part 3: We’re All Mushrooms
Two years ago, before this blog went on a much-unnoticed hiatus, I began a series of posts on the meaning of life. I know, I know– who writes about “the meaning of life”? Well, to borrow a phrase from two years ago, this is my goddamn overly-analytical, informal blog about what I think, so I’m…
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George Inness, “The Lackawanna Valley”
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Rabbi George Altshuler 