The blog has returned. More than two years have elapsed since my last blogging effort and much has changed, most significantly I’m now employed (yay!) by the folks at JTA and back in NYC. Since writing has actually been paying my bills these past two years I’ve been less inclined to spend time on the blog, but that too has changed. So has my approach to this thing. There will be less pontification, less random linking. I hope instead to provide some deeper stuff on the beats I cover — these days, mostly religion and academia, but given that I seem to be JTA’s go-to guy in New York for all things uncategorizable, sometimes some other weirdness crops up. Like this story from last week about the American Jew accused of spying for Israel. I spent the afternoon Tuesday packed into a federal courthouse in lower Manhattan with other curious reporters and Reuters snapped this shot of me outside afterwards, seeking the perfect angle for a photo of Mr. Kadish’s bald pate. Ok, maybe this doesn’t qualify as “deeper stuff,” but bear with me.
