In last month’s recent podcast of “The Joy of Text”, the featured discussion was about pornography (“The Pornography Episode”), which provided the most dynamic interaction between the two hosts of the show, Rabbi Dov Linzer and Dr. Bat Sheva Marcus,...
There is a fascinating text found in the Babylonian Talmud that I wanted to explore a little bit, share some thoughts, and, hopefully, at a later point in time, have researched it to provide a greater sense of it. Here...
The Oceanside store of the Stone Company recently celebrated its third anniversary. With a special variety of beers available on-tap, it was worth visiting. On my way back up from San Diego on Friday afternoon, I stopped into the store...
Walking out onto the patio where Wired Café took place in San Diego in stone-throwing distance of San Diego Comic Con, one is embraced by not only the warm and sunny, yet delightfully breezy weather, but also a delectably enjoyable...
While on my trip to Israel earlier this year, I had the pleasurable opportunity to visit the gathering of dozens of Homebrewers in Modi’in for the Modi’in Homebrewers Club. Having met Levi Fried earlier in the day, he then picked...
Having regularly written about The Joy of Text series, I realized I haven’t yet gotten around to posting about the two most recent podcasts. In this post, I’ll describe May’s podcast, which came out a month-and-a-half ago (stay tuned for...
Earlier this week, finding myself on Manhattan’s lower east side (having visited the Center for Jewish History) and having read about a new kosher-certified sushi place that opened up within a sports bar the previous day, my wife and decided...
Yesterday marked the first anniversary of this blog, with my having started it a year ago! Of course, the launch of Matters of Interest came on the heels of my six-month project of having written elsewhere, before I decided to...
Last month, I visited Mexico for my first time and our visit consisted of spending several hours in Ensenada, which is a town in the northern part of the western coast of Baja California. My wife and I were in...
