▪ Shmuley Boteach on Cory Booker: The spiritual education of Cory Booker
▪ Strange story. I remember that his book on God and evil had a glowing blurb from R. Norman Lamm that convinced me to buy the book, which if I recall correctly was actually quite good if ambitious (but the value of an amateur opinion like mine is precisely the issue, isn’t it?): Has David Birnbaum solved the mystery of existence?
▪ Prenup: There Is Another Way To Get a ‘Get’
▪ NPR segment on Benzion Shenker: The Greatest Living Figure Of Chasidic Music
▪ Meet Bill Clinton’s Rabbi, Menachem Genack, CEO of OU Kosher
▪ Told you so (link): Same-sex marriages start in New Jersey, 14th state to recognize such unions
▪ It shouldn’t need to be said but for the record, not all Charedi schools in Brooklyn are the same: The Misadventures of a Secular English Teacher in an Orthodox School
▪ Schick: The Problem With the Research Behind the Pew Study on American Judaism
▪ Eight facts about Orthodox Jews from the Pew Research survey
