A break from work. Oscar Peterson's fearsome rendition of Autumn Leaves. I've provided a transcription of the run that starts at 1:42 in...

This is not what I intended to write about today (I hope I'll get to that later), but I gave a little presentation to the Shalem School...

A couple of years ago I found myself in Monterey for Shabbos. Walking back from a favorite spot by the water, I heard the first lines of...

Nabokov, one of the greatest facilitators of exchange and communication between English and Russian literatures, despised translation....

Well. Impossible as it may sound, The Shalem School has just wrapped up its first year. Our students took their last exams today and...

I was asked, in the spirit of Purim, to write a eulogy for three goldfish that met their untimely demise last week. I complied, and the...