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Join me and Cardozo Law School Professor Michael Herz as we...

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 09:43:57 -0500

Join me and Cardozo Law School Professor Michael Herz as we explore the role that interpretation plays in Jewish law and in constitutional law. We’ll discuss the challenge of understanding original intent in both religious and secular contexts?

Sunday, March 13th at 10am at The New Shul’s Rebbe’s Table at City Winery’s Klezmer Brunch, 155 Varick St. @ Vandam

Join me and Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award-winning Composer,...

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:57:44 -0500

Join me and Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award-winning Composer, David Lang as we explore music’s ability to affect us on a spiritual/emotional level; as well as the difficult (or unflattering) images of Jews that a western composer must confront in his source material.

This Sunday, at 10am at The New Shul’s Rebbe’s Table at City Winery’s Klezmer Brunch, 155 Varick St. @ Vandam

Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, spiritual leader of the Abayudaya Jews, is...

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:08:19 -0500

Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, spiritual leader of the Abayudaya Jews, is poised to become Uganda’s first Jewish MP.

So this is how you get the economy moving. You stick a giant...

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:35:00 -0500

So this is how you get the economy moving. You stick a giant computer on top of it that tells you where to go.

NY Times

Cristina Comencini & Rabbi Hillel

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:09:16 -0500

Cristina Comencini & Rabbi Hillel

Here’s the menu: Food and Drink:- Champagne cocktail -...

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 13:01:14 -0500

Here’s the menu:

Food and Drink:
- Champagne cocktail
- Lake Victoria perch over lentils
- Israeli couscous cooked in a tomato broth
- Roasted Brussels sprouts
- Roasted cauliflower salad
- Green salad
- Chocolate mousse

Chocolate:
- Cognac truffle in coco powder
- Butter and saffron truffle
- Ground coffee in white chocolate
- Chocolate with cinnamon
- White chocolate mousse on a spoon

This Friday, get you tix here.

No Age - “Fever Dreaming” - on Letterman.

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:37:06 -0500

No Age - “Fever Dreaming” - on Letterman.

What do you eat at an Ethical Eating Shabbat Dinner?

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:03:09 -0500

Here’s the menu (prepared by 92YTribeca’s Executive Chef, Russell Moss):

All-You-Can-Drink Cocktail: Brooklyn Blast—this is a mixture of locally made Brooklyn blast IPA & our pineapple lemonade

Tofu with wild mushrooms

Butternut squash with cumin & toasted pumpkin seed

Persian-style eggplant

Cold salad of zucchini & red pepper dressed with lemon & olive oil

Green salad with cranberries & pine nuts

Dessert: white chocolate mousse with cranberry syrup

This Friday @ 7pm at 92YTribeca. For tickets and more information click here.

Dr. King: God has a way of standing before the nations with...

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 13:33:58 -0500

Dr. King:

God has a way of standing before the nations with judgment and it seems that I can hear God saying to America: “You’re too arrogant. If you don’t change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power and I will place it in the hands of a nation that doesn’t even know my name. Be still and know that I’m God.”

Ethical Eating Shabbat dinner at 92YTribeca, Friday the...

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:54:42 -0500

Ethical Eating Shabbat dinner at 92YTribeca, Friday the 21st.

Click here for tickets.

“The Religious Case Against Belief” - Join me and...

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:46:53 -0500

“The Religious Case Against Belief” - Join me and Professor James Carse this Sunday @ 10am at The Rebbe’s Table at City Winery’s Klezmer Brunch.

That’s the Barclays Center. Right off 5th Avenue. Via...

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:19:41 -0500

That’s the Barclays Center. Right off 5th Avenue.

Via Here’s Park Slope

Join me and Professor Eric Klann (NYU Center for Neural Science)...

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:49:17 -0500

Join me and Professor Eric Klann (NYU Center for Neural Science) as we explore the role that memory plays in determining our identity.

- How are memories altered?

- Are memories or experiences, particularly traumatic ones, passed down from generation to generation?

- Do learned behaviors have a biological basis?

This Sunday, at 10am at City Winery’s Klezmer Brunch, 155 Varick St. @ Vandam

Sounds tasty

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:27:02 -0500

Sounds tasty

Comedian Jon Friedman (of the Rejection Show and blogger...

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:46:00 -0500

Comedian Jon Friedman (of the Rejection Show and blogger for Late Night w/Jimmy Fallon) on the embarrassment of being called up to the bima when you’re much older than all the other children.

Comedy Shabbat Dinner w/Jon Friedman - Next Friday, the 17th @ 92YTribeca

Just don’t laugh with your mouth full, please.

“You tell me it’s the institution, well you know,...

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:24:14 -0500

“You tell me it’s the institution, well you know, you better free your mind instead.” - John Lennon

jourds: Who’s excited for tonight’s beer + latke tasting? 100...

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:44:36 -0500

jourds:

Who’s excited for tonight’s beer + latke tasting? 100 dreidels in the house.

Tonight at 7 @ 92yTribeca. Tickets here.

"Even if this approach works, there will be side effects that we can’t anticipate…. And in some..."

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:34:55 -0500

“Even if this approach works, there will be side effects that we can’t anticipate…. And in some scenarios I would worry about defining humans down: defining what’s normal based on what we can model in virtual environments.”

- Jaron Lanier in NY Times article “In Cybertherapy, Avatars Assist With Healing”

African rabbi in bid to become first Ugandan Jewish MP A...

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:58:28 -0500

African rabbi in bid to become first Ugandan Jewish MP

A Ugandan Jew who grew up under the Idi Amin regime is hoping to become the first rabbi serving in a national parliament outside of Israel or Europe.

If Gershom Sizomu is elected he will also be the first Ugandan Jew elected to national office.

The African country goes to the polls in February 2011 and this week Rabbi Sizomu will find out if his application to stand for the parliamentary seat of Bungonkho North, in the city of Mbale, has been accepted by the electoral commission.

He has already received the backing of several Ugandan politicians and the official endorsement of the main opposition party, the Forum for Democratic Change.

The Jewish Chronicle Online

Looking forward to this tonight! Poems about YouTube videos....

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:30:10 -0500

Looking forward to this tonight!

Poems about YouTube videos. Haikus made of one-liners. Modern dance by a stand-up comedian.
Feelings are no joke. So join us as a rotating array of New York’s finest comedians express themselves through poetry and dance.
You’ll laugh so hard you’ll cry, or you may just cry.
Hosted by Nathan Phillips (The Nathan + Joe Show, SEX YOU (I’m Gonna), This Park is Mine on Planet Green) read his poetry and comedy jokes at dealingwithmyfeelings.com

9:30 @ The Peoples Improv Theater
154 W. 29th Street 2nd FL
New York, NY 10001