This past Sunday, I got to experience a rye whiskey-tasting for my first time.* While I have had a rye whiskey or a rye whiskey there, I was not particularly familiar with rye whiskey beyond having a sense that it...
At the bottom of page 4b and continuing on to the top of page 5a in the Babylonian Talmud, tractate Berakhot, we have the following: אמר רב נחמן אם תלמיד חכם הוא אין צריך Rav Nahman said: “If one is...
Yesterday, while at the Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show, who serves as the travel editor at CBS News, spoke on booking one’s travel and accommodations to a crowd who had stayed until the end of the show. The talk,...
When I found out last month that the US Coffee Championships were coming to Long Beach, I knew I had to try to go, despite knowing nothing about the event, nor what would be taking place. This weekend, the US...
Last night, I visited Bottle Logic Brewing for the first time last night. While I had enjoyed one of their beers in November, I really was not familiar with the brewery nor their beers. It seemed to be a very appropriate...
Just like last year, Oh! Nuts is offering a Purim basket giveaway and you can win a $30 gift certificate for use on their website! With Purim coming up in a little over two weeks, this is a great opportunity to get...
While visiting my brother-in-law in Modi’in last month, my wife and I wanted to go out to a restaurant nearby and one of the suggestions was Bonnofait, a kosher dairy restaurant in a shopping center in nearby Re’ut. Bonnofait had...
An Orthodox rabbi and a sex therapist discuss sex – while this scenario is not common in the real world, a new podcast series discussing sexual matters for Orthodox Jews is focussed solely on that. The new podcast series, “The...
Before I went to Israel on my recent trip, several people, independent of each other, had recommended I visit Dancing Camel Brewery, as one of the premier breweries in Israel. Clearly, I had to visit. Located in an area that...
Something I noticed years ago and about which I am still curious is that women seem to be the only people who discuss their sexual experiences in the Babylonian Talmud. Now, I have not read the entire Babylonian Talmud, so...
