... because two days after I attended the world premiere of their new concert film, my ears are STILL ringing. But I'm getting ahead of myself. This week, I found myself in the enviable position of being invited to TWO simultaneous red carpet events. The fact that this largess has nothing to do with...

several months ago, i convinced myself that i should keep chalav yisroel . for the uninitiated, basically that means that the milk is under rabbinical supervision from the time of milking through the production of whatever dairy products are being produced. regular milk does not have to be supervise...

after living in relative hell for almost a year, i'd say that now is the perfect time to throw in the proverbial towel as someone, somewhere once said.at some point it was decided that anyone who makes yerida (literally "going down" or "to descend", the opposite of aliyah-"to go up") should be stigm...

rather than be put on the spot, i think i'll just spend a few moments here preparing for the eventual interview that i'll probably have to do in order to promote my new book. interviewer: hi bec! i've just read a copy of your newest collection of short stories, "stories of the oppressed, part the fi...

this is going to be part of a post since these are the things we don't talk about and therefore, probably shouldn't be spoken about. there is actually an article in here somewhere which i plan on writing and doing interviews for after i return to the states, but i want to just mention things here in...

i think my head is exploding. for us to send three kids to yeshiva at the same time in the states, it will cost between 25,000 and 30,000 US dollars a year. joclyn says that she believes catholic school to be less than four thousand dollars a year. (she's not catholic, and she's getting married in j...

i should probably write about what's going on in gaza but i'm not sure that i care. more importantly, we have yankees tickets!!!!! and mets tickets!!!!! i have never been much of a baseball fan, and the two times that my folks took me to baseball games as a kid, i complained the whole time. it was b...

i am not voting for barack obama/osama/yo' mama because i don't think he's a qualified candidate . it has nothing to do with him being black, mulatto, a person of some form of muslim descent, tall, of color, short-haired, not bearded, not jewish, not republican, a plagiarist (well, okay, i do find i...

i'm not really an impulse shopper. i mean, i am very good at denying myself the material things that i want for a whole host of reasons-too expensive, i don't really need it, there are other, more important things i need, etc. even when faced with a monetary gift or a gift card, i find it hard to ge...

the dream i had while sleeping last night in my dream my double bedroom windows were a block away from the kinneret (the sea of galilee) and the water was churning as if a bad storm was coming. suddenly, the sea surged and dirty ropes of water like dreadlocks or the ropes on a mop started hurling th...