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Save The Assistants gets the kind of press only a subway commuter could appreciate. (Me? I take a taxi to work everyday and if I'm lucky someone's left behind a half-eaten Post front page. Mostly I read the looks on people's faces to get the news.)

I was one of the judges for the Six Points Fellowship musician selection. The others were: Annette Ezekiel of Golem; Noel Grey, Grey Entertainment; Jim Loeffler, Assistant Professor at University of Virginia; Jody Rosen, Slate's music critic; and Francesco Spagnolo, American Sephardi Federation. I think my role was non-musician fanboy blogger. I voted for a guy who wanted to spread klezmer love with ice cream truck songs. I imagined a Mitzvah Tank with a cherry on top. He didn't make it past the first round.

Henry Stern is a daily must-read. This might be my favorite web page ever.

I was told I would like Fair Game from PRI with Faith Salie a lot. This is a fact I cannot deny.

Making the very wise choice not to work for Denton (would you want to wake up one day and find out you were fired for no reason?), Delly Hayward shakes her Schticksa for Canonist's new blog, Jewess. [Disclosure: Delly and I were once a trendy interfaith-intercontinental couple. She always claimed she was more Jewish than me and proved so one day at White Hart Lane. Come on you Yiddos.]