When I was in London a few weeks ago, I spent a wonderful evening in the company of my cousin wandering the halls of the British Museum (which I might note is free, which both appeals to my hereditary… more →
Noodniknoodnik wrote 3 weeks ago: When I was in London a few weeks ago, I spent a wonderful evening in the company of my cousin wander … more →
noodnik wrote 8 months ago: is part of the AFL-CIO. Really … more →
noodnik wrote 10 months ago: Probably the moment of highest drama in Jewish synagogue services is Kol Nidrei on the evening of … more →
noodnik wrote 1 year ago: With Dawkins still selling like hotcakes, the New York Review of Books offers this less than complem … more →
noodnik wrote 1 year ago: This Corot painting is worth the visit and price of admission to the Metropolitan Museum alone. It … more →
noodnik wrote 1 year ago: Regular readers of my blog (as opposed to the hordes that happen on Noodnik through Borat-related se … more →
noodnik wrote 1 year ago: A few weeks ago I was out with a friend in an East Village bar when I noticed the guy sitting nex … more →
noodnik wrote 1 year ago: This week we begin the cycle of Torah reading again, starting with the account of the creation in Pa … more →
noodnik wrote 1 year ago: The web site of the left-leaning Israeli newspaper Haaretz (at one point the organ of the Labor Part … more →
noodnik wrote 1 year ago: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks has an excellent study on the notion of kingship in Judaism based on these vers … more →
noodnik wrote 2 years ago: Baseball viewing is not encouraged in my household (which is not an enormous burden to bear), so I o … more →
noodnik wrote 2 years ago: This week’s parsha starts with a relatively obscure Hebrew word. Translated as because or if, … more →
noodnik wrote 2 years ago: The Ninth of Av (Tisha B’Av) starting tonight is a fast day that marks the destruction of both … more →
noodnik wrote 2 years ago: This week’s parsha includes an account of the type that critics like to point at to justify th … more →
noodnik wrote 2 years ago: From an empirical point of view, I’d say it’s difficult to conclude with certainty that … more →
noodnik wrote 2 years ago: In general, I am lukewarm to the Lubavitcher or Chabad school of thought, but this interpretation of … more →
noodnik wrote 2 years ago: Although they are by no means universally understood to be a fundamental statement of the Jewish et … more →
noodnik wrote 2 years ago: It’s probably coincidental, but Rabbi Jonathan Sacks starts off his discussion’s of thi … more →