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  • And Here’s What Happened Next

    5/13/13 • (8)

    So a week ago I applied to rabbinic school. Here’s what I learned today.

  • A Badge to Visit Your Rabbi (Video)

    12/27/12 • (0)

    Overly earnest security measures can carry a great price. They can make of our synagogues unnecessarily unwelcoming places. I explore that idea in this video post.

  • The Amidah Project: Modeh Ani (Video)

    10/28/12 • (1)

    The Modeh Ani: prayer upon waking or jaunty country song? It’s how I greet the world every morning, thanking God for the gift of another day. But I’m never able to get a certain Kol B’Seder melody out of my head. And that’s okay. Gratitude is never something to be embarrassed about.

  • The Amidah Project: Laying Tefillin–Wearing Your Prayer on Your Sleeve (Video)

    10/26/12 • (5)

    Phylacteries. Except, no Jew calls them that. They’re tefillin, and Jews are commanded to wrap themselves in them before morning prayer. They’re a part of my morning ritual. Here’s what that looks like.

  • The New View from Here (VIDEO)

    6/01/12 • (0)

    When I moved eight miles north from downtown Chicago, I traded in one spectacular high-rise view for another. Here’s a set of videos to show how living across from the Loop compares to living on the edge of Lake Michigan–in all its inland-sea glory.

  • Marina City Parting Gift: A(nother) Flood to Remember (VIDEO)

    2/09/12 • (5)

    Yesterday I thought I shared my last thoughts on Marina City. But today, Chicago’s infamously flood-prone corncobs decided to have one more watery word.

  • Getting to the Point with the Yetzer Hara

    8/17/11 • (6)

    If life were always perfect, why would God bother to put us here? A meditation on the need for the Yetzer Hara–Judaism’s ‘evil inclination’ that makes the world go ’round.

  • Splashdown

    5/12/11 • (6)

    When I woke up this morning, Michael Doyle wasn’t a Jewish name. It is now. Today, I officially joined the Jewish people.

  • I’m Not a Mac #10–How Android Won Me Away from iPhone (Video)

    4/01/10 • (8)

    Last week, I replaced my Apple iPhone 3G with a Google Android phone. Here’s why I did it, why I think Android is the better smartphone platform, and a look at what I did with my former 3G. Think: hammer…

  • CTA Transit Union Deserves No One’s Sympathy (Video)

    1/20/10 • (17)

    The CTA’s union workers demand better hours and a raise to go with their health insurance and pensions. Are they living in a different economy than the rest of us?