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EST 1917

The cover of Pitom‘s new album, Blasphemy and Other Serious Crimes, features a picture of an empty chair sitting in a corner. It feels strangely appropriate. If Pitom were a preschooler instead of a jazz band, it would definitely spend a lot of its time acting out, and being sent to the corner. Pitom is a four-piece band […]

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Nobody dies in Jonathan Safran Foer‘s 2002 short story “A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease.” But looming over the characters is the omnipresent fear of death. The narrator of the story (whose name, like the author’s, is Jonathan) and his family have a genetic history of heart attacks–41 of them among his immediate family. They’re […]

Is it possible to be too comfortable with yourself? The Torah tells us to “love your neighbor as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18). On the surface, it’s a pretty simple thing. Who doesn’t think that they should love their neighbors (except for their occasional loud party or dog poop)? But, says the mystic Moses Cordovero (1522-1570) in his book The Palm Tree of Deborah, loving […]

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