Jaffa

My friends Chaya and Azriel needed to go to Yafo (now practically a suburb of Tel Aviv) today. In a few days, Chaya and Mordechai will move there, to an old red stucco house on the corner of a street a block from the ocean. As of today, the house is full of plaster dust, Continue reading Jaffa

Evening at shul

7:43:10 PM I sit here on the floor of the main sanctuary at the Stephen S. Wise temple in Los Angeles, waiting for Rabbi M to start talking. Just had dinner with a few of the people from the temple — good looking dinner, wish I’d been hungry. Now the talk. Surprise overflow of people Continue reading Evening at shul

A word to the wise

Why the RIAA’s “Amnesty” Offer is a ShamWhile the RIAA would like you to believe otherwise, their offer of protection is largely illusory. [EFF: Press]

words

it could be said that God was born as soon as we had a word to call him by… it could be said that our words make the world — and if we believe in ourselves too far — completely — then we become the world… But that world is a dull one. The real Continue reading words