Last year I cooked up the big family Thanksgiving dinner all by myself – no mean feat for a young guy. How did I do it? I made most of it three days before and froze or refrigerated the various dishes. I even made the gravy beforehand. Now, usually I’m super stressed when I have […]
February 13, 2007 – 5:39 am
Rabbi Cary Friedman is a teacher and expert on Torah ethics. He works for the FBI, in the Behavioral Science Unit, as a sort of super-chaplain, to de-stress field agents and others. He also loves Batman comics. So much so he wrote a book, Wisdom from the Batcave, finding, in Batman, a Jewish role model:
Examining […]
January 22, 2007 – 5:02 am
I find it tough to put books in ordered lists and come up with even one top book. They can all be so different. If I was going to be really serious about it how would I go about it? I’d probably spread all my favorites out on the dining room table first. Then I […]
January 16, 2007 – 5:15 am
There’s an excellent review of Fagles’ translation of Virgil’s Aeneid over at Powell’s. I’m definitely picking this edition up when it eventually makes it’s way to the McNally Robinson bargain section. It seems like all the best books wind up there sooner or later.
The biggest obstacle to enjoying the classics, for most people, myself included, […]