By Adam Brownstein — Tokyo, Japan — July 12, 2026 Early on in our marriage, my Japanese wife endured an intense indoctrination into the most salient canon of Western culture. This was, as you may guess, enjoying the full panoply of Friends (all 236 episodes from the first Rachel and Ross meet cute to theContinue reading “Baryshnikov”
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The Real McCoy
By Adam Brownstein – August 3, 2025 – Tokyo, Japan The sages tell us that many ages ago there was a wondrous festival of torches that took place every year around the perimeter of the Temple in Jerusalem. Young rabbinical students and even members of the Sanhendrin were given to performing splits, cartwheels andContinue reading “The Real McCoy”
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