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Nothing says haredi Judaism like thousands of men packed in a room talking about what women need to do, does it? A huge, married-men-only conference on modesty was held a week-plus ago to discuss the necessity of buckling down on dress codes for women and girls. As...

Researchers Susan Fournier and Michael Guiry found that only 15% of the people they surveyed said that they'd be satisfied "living a comfortable life." The other 85% of their survey claimed that they would only be happy when their income and lifestyle reflected that...

In the wake of the death of a friend of his (who happens to be a friend of a friend of a friend of mine), Neil Gaiman writes in his blog about the importance of writers (and musicians, and artists, and anybody else who might create work that has rights and royalties...

Happy Secular American Holiday to you all! I hope that wherever you are, you have safely avoided or survived Wednesday's nightmareathon that is busy air travel under the TSA. I keep forgetting that today is a holiday that I've celebrated probably every year of my life...

There's a great Rashi on some gemara, somewhere, that in my germ-addled state I can't quite dig up from the recesses of my brain, and my searching skills (google and my CD ROM) are not helping today. It's the one in which Rashi says, basically, "people who make a big...

Well, I knew I was going to pay for the hubris of that itenerary somehow. Got back to Israel yesterday morning and have managed to be asleep for the vast bulk of the hours since then (It's 3pm day two of my return, now). I have some sort of bug--the kind that prefers...

...I'm going home tomorrow. Let's see. 2 weeks. Ventured out into 5 1/2 (American) cities, stayed in 8 different places/homes (inhabited, in total, by 17 people; thank you everyone, for your hospitality), took 7 flights (8 tomorrow) and 2 multi-hour train rides (not...