Jonathan Rosen
Jonathan Rosen
Jonathan Rosenis an American author and editor...
bummed city seemed timing weekend
I've got to admit, I was pretty bummed out most of the weekend because it just seemed like the timing would have been perfect. Still, you have to think in a city like this, where there's a will there's a way.
nobody sounds title touch wants word
Nobody really wants to touch this because anything with the word 'fight' in the title just sounds scary.
across action care crisis education fair fix funding held parents people public ultimately
Across New York, parents want fair funding of public schools. If Sen. Bruno doesn't want to take action to fix our public education crisis . . . ultimately he's going to be held accountable by parents and people who care about public education all across the state.
flip land preserve prices
If you're a landlord, you don't need to preserve your collateral. You just flip it on the land prices alone.
heaven soul dying
The Talmud tells a story about a great Rabbi who is dying, he has become a goses, but he cannot die because outside all his students are praying for him to live and this is distracting to his soul. His maidservant climbs to the roof of the hut where the Rabbi is dying and hurls a clay vessel to the ground. The sound diverts the students, who stop praying. In that moment, the Rabbi dies and his soul goes to heaven. The servant, too, the Talmud says, is guaranteed her place in the world to come.
hands giving people
It's the side-by-side culture of the Talmud I like so much. 'On the one hand' and 'on the other hand' is frustrating for people seeking absolute faith, but for me it gives religion an ambidextrous quality that suits my temperament.
beautiful people goldfish
Starlets were always turning up dead in people's pools. They fished them out like goldfish. Nobody seemed to find it unusual that so many young, beautiful women wanted to die.
men people looks
Most people don't want to die, but they don't want to live either. I am speaking about men now as much as women. They look for a third way, but there is no third way.
humanity ill humans
The things that make us human often make us ill.