The Curious Jew

I read How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough over the weekend. It was a good book, even if ...

Those of you looking for 'Hasidic Worlds in Fiction,' it will be back up in a couple of weeks but for right now, cannot be posted. S...

My mother's favorite book is Anna Karenina . Alas, when it comes to the Russian classics, I prefer The Brothers Karamazov. This having b...

“Salander had no faith in herself. Blomkvist lived in a world populated by people with respectable jobs, people with orderly lives, and lot...

The following is a poem by Rilke that I love. It is about God. It reminds me of the way the prophets feel and think. ~ Put out my eyes, ...

I read a piece by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks in his book ' Celebrating Life ' that really resonated with me. It's called 'God'...

In these few days before Yom Kippur, do you want to give some tzedaka ? Donate to the Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation and support my stu...

Over Rosh Hashana, I read, in addition to other things, the book What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael J. Sandel...

I was riding the bus in Maryland along with a friend of mine today. He was wearing a colorful knit kippah, swan earrings, a t-shirt and Arab...

(This review contains spoilers.)  I bought and read The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer today. The cover art was so very beautiful and I had hear...

I'm in the middle of reading the book Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eaglemen. I've come to a part of the book w...

(Contains spoilers) Things of note that are worth thinking about (especially since apparently everyone has missed a clue as to how Sherloc...

(Warning: This post contains spoilers for "The Dark Knight Rises") Unfortunately, I was disappointed by "The Dark Knight Ri...

I went to the public library before Shabbat and when wandering through the Reading List aisles (always my favorite section), happened acros...

Usually, when people watch TV, they watch it for its entertainment value. But when I watch TV, I watch it because I want it to stir me up, t...

Jonathan Safran Foer has published a screed in his book Eating Animals . More than that, it's an angry screed. His alarmist, overly emot...

I was struck by a a section of Michael Pollan's book ' The Omnivore's Dilemma ' and planned to type it up for your reading ...