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2022 My Year In Books
Another year, another 52 books. I spent nearly half of 2022 living in other people’s homes, which was weird and kind of unsettling, but I also read some absolute bangers. If you actually read this whole thing, you’ll probably notice some themes. More books about nature, less poetry, more trashy fiction, less literary fiction. As…
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Review: Kaplan’s Jewish Meditation
Jewish Meditation: A Practical Guide Aryeh Kaplan A bit of a disappointment. I was hoping to find here a reading of Jewish spiritual life as mediation. What I found instead was a book that, in my opinion, tried to squeeze Jewish tradition into the mediation framework in order to keep Jews from turning “Jewbu” (Jewish…
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Book Review: Lew’s This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared
This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation Allan Lew A meditation on the Jewish High Holidays by one of the most important reform rabbis of the last fifty years. A deeply honest and moving book. The most spiritually moving piece of literature I have read,…
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2015: My Year In Books
I set two reading goals for 2015 – to read fifty two books for the year and to have fifty percent of those books be by women. Unlike most of the other goals I set this year, I actually accomplished both of these.I’m pretty happy with that. Now that I’m a dad who almost never…
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Review: Weil and Bespaloff’s War and the Illiad
I’m going to start by giving you a little hint: if you’re wandering through a used bookstore and you see a book published by the New York Review of Books, buy it. Don’t worry if it isn’t something you’ve heard of, or is about a subject matter you’re not particularly interested in. It doesn’t matter…
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Totals for the Week Ending 3.1.2015
Run Miles for the week: 18.3 in 3:00:07 Run Miles for the year: 236.1 Projected total miles for the year: 1436.3 Weekly/Daily averages to reach 2k run miles 5.8/40.8 Run Streak: 2 Number of runs that were one stupid mile: 0 Days until I beat my old run streak: 112 Prospect Park loops for the…
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2010: My Year in Books
Note: I am in the long, slow process of moving the many, many things I’ve written for various other blogs/ websites. livejournals, etc over here. I’m not moving everything, but if its something of substance, or something I want to remember, it’s getting a home here. As my post on every book I read in…
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Every Book I Read in 2010
Here is a list of every book I read in 2010, I’ve noted whether or not I would recommend it, not recommend it, or recommend it for the enthusiast. If a book is recommended I think you would enjoy it whether or not you are particularly interested in the area. Recommended for the enthusiast means…
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Conversion Reading List
Just a quick post today to note what the reading will be for the conversion I am taking and some thoughts on study: The text book is Living Judaism: The Complete Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition and Practice The bible we’ll be using is the JPS Tanakh Other recommended reading is: Jewish Literacy Jewish Holidays…
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Study
Just a quick post today to note what the reading will be for the conversion I am taking and some thoughts on study: The text book is Living Judaism: The Complete Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition and Practice The bible we’ll be using is the JPS Tanakh Other recommended reading is: Jewish Literacy Jewish Holidays…
Milo and the Calf 