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Shavuot Redux: Getting Lucky with Daft Punk
Daft Punk is the gift that keeps on giving. They came of age in the late 1990s heyday of house/electronic music with “Around the World,”...
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Arts & Culture
A Little More Boston: Running Downtown on Erev Shavuot
Today I had the rare treat of having three whole hours with nowhere to be. Erev Shavuot gifted me with a 1:00 end of the...
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Personal Stories
Anything is Possible: The Erev Mother’s Day Miracle
Baseball exists outside of time. You can be down to your last inning, or your last out, or your last strike, and there’s always a...
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Personal Stories
Fake Daisies: Kabbalat Shabbat on My Front Lawn
It’s not an exaggeration to say that we are in middle of the most amazing stretch of Spring weather that I can remember. With midday...
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Kids & Parenting
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On Tragedy and Futility
Tuesday I was running in below-freezing wind chill across the Nahant Causeway. Wednesday I was running in brilliant, warm sunshine in Cold Spring Park in...
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Personal Stories
A Passover Play Date: How to Save the Jewish People
As Jews we have seen more than our fair share of suffering and persecution. Every Passover we solemnly acknowledge that God continues to save us...
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Kids & Parenting
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The Tobin Bridge and the Seder: My Passover Wish for Everyone
I did something today I had never done before. I began the morning by driving up 128 to Beverly for a presentation at Temple Bnai...
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Judaism & Spirituality
Four More Questions
Last year at this time I penned an additional four questions for the Passover Seder related to Israel. In looking at them this year it’s...
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Israel & Overseas
You Can't Get There From Here: Snow, Air Travel, and a Failed Trip to Haifa
Sometimes you really can’t get there from here. Friday’s pseudo-surprising snowpocalypse snarled air traffic up and down the Northeast for the better part of the...
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Israel & Overseas
Leaving Home, Going Home
You know that feeling when, after a long drive, the end is in sight and it’s only a few minutes until you’re back in your...
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Israel & Overseas
