A person with sense. “She views intermarriage as not something that will doom the Jews, but as a reality, and says it’s important to welcome non-Jewish spouses into the fold as a way of keeping the family connected to the community.”

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/163180/aiello-italy-jewish-roots//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

Don’t be too quick to guess the future of bookstores.

http://blog.speculist.com/scenarios/the-coffee-shop-take-over.html//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

I always thought it would be cool to learn Scots Gaelic. I even bought a dictionary and a grammar, but somehow never made time for it.

http://playingintheworldgame.wordpress.com/2014/01/23/not-dead-yet-the-celtic-languages-hold-on-for-dear-life///cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

The real reason we have conflict in the Middle East.

Atheism 2.0. A TED Talk from three years ago. It must be seminal for a lot of people. I’m always surprised by how many of my friends, both theist and atheist, refer to it and post links to it. 

http://www.ted.com/talks/alain_de_botton_atheism_2_0.html//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js