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It seems that lots of people are talking about the need to unplug from technology lately. The Today show evidently has a whole ongoing feature on people and tech ("could you do your high-powered job without email and your cell phone for one week?" etc.) and the author...

I love to see people that I love becoming who they are. I'm in New York now, watching my beloved classmates become rabbis in the sense that they're in the middle of job interviews and beautifully stepping up to the task. I remember some of these guys from ulpan...

It's been such a long break from blogging that I've neglected to note that some stuff that I had written a while back has finally made it out into the big world. An essay that I co-wrote with Rabbi Rebecca Alpert (it's more of a dialogue, really; it was awfully fun to...

I know I've been neglecting you. There are so many stories I haven't told you, and even lots of pictures of my trip that I haven't put online. I didn't even tell you about the three days of trekking around Torres del Paine (so beautiful! I've never been that sore in...

I met a glacier today. It was immense, and gorgeous, and silent, except when it made large, thundering noises as pieces of it collapsed into the sea, overwhelmed by its own weight as the glacier advanced. The ice was actually quite blue. It is about four million years...

The last handful of days have been loveliness, featuring the extraordinary trees of Buenos Aires (perfect for climbing in, among other things), a ride in a boat in the iron-rich waters of a delta where five rivers meet, a cookie that is, in effect, a sandwich of two...

As time and cheap Internet allows, I'm going to try to post from the road. I hope you will forgive whatever typos sneak in from the Spanish keyboard. So greetings from NE Argentina, near the border of Brazil. The last day and a half have been spent at Iguazu Falls,...

This song, "Isaac Bashevis Singer," is by the Owls and it's quite lovely. They also have an ode to Peppermint Patty. What's not to like?

Well, I've passed the second Daf exam. I'm pretty sure this means that they actually do have to ordain me in May. Next Sunday I leave for a few weeks in Patagonia with my sweetie. I'll be back soon, with pictures (hopefully) of penguins, waterfalls, and how everything...