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January 11, 2026 My latest presentation (at 2026 AALS conference)
Because my presentations (to the Environmental Law section and the Federalist Society sub-conference) were a little shorter than usual I just talked off a power point (attached) rather than drafting a full speech.
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January 11, 2026 Books I read in 2025
I bolded some of the books that I remember most vividly (in a positive way):
- Etshalom, Between the Lines of the Bible: Genesis
- Same author but for Exodus
- Stern, Josel of Rosheim
- Subar, The Essential Malbim (Genesis)
- Same, Exodus volume
- Same, last three books of the Torah
- Bennett, Unscrolled
- Paulson, On The Brink
- Paleologue, My Secret Diary of the Dreyfuss Case
- Whittle, Shrink the City
- Franken, Al Franken: Giant of the Senate
- Erdmann, Building From the Ground Up
- Frerichs, Exodus: The Egyptian Evidence
- Metternich, The First European
- Grossman, A Horse Walks Into A Bar
- Alter, Amos Oz
- Assmann, Moses the Egyptian
- Milgram, Portugal, Salazar and the Jews
- Barmash, Exodus in the Jewish Experience
- Bjorgass, Secret Life of the City
- Wisse, I.L. Peretz and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture
- Oshry, Responsa from the Holocaust
- Senik, A Man of Iron
- Hurwitz, The Responsa of Solomon Luria
- Klein, Abundance
- Eleff, Who Rules the Synagogue?
- Fohrman, Leviticus: A Parsha Companion
- Lloyd, The Bedlam Cadaver
- McAuliffe, Paris: City of Dreams
- Birstein, The Rabbi of 47th Street
- Pardes, Ruth: A Migrant’s Tale
- Seeman, Hasidim, Suffering and Renewal
- Between Two Worlds, Judd
- Seligman, The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902
- Oz, Panther In the Basement
- Eisenman, Worlds Beneath The Word
- Beard, Emperor of Rome
- Kaiser, Plunder
- Rubin, Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill
- Rossum, The Green Amendment
- Artscroll, Avodah Zarah 1b
- Veidlinger, In the Midst of Civilized Europe
- Frahm, Assyria
- Ellsworth, Wonder City
- Twain, Innocents Abroad
- Diamond, The Sprawl
- Kirsch, On Settler Colonialism
- Stephanos, Jews Under Hitlerism
- Schneider, The Unfinished Metropolis
- Brous, The Amen Effect
- Agus, Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg
- Eckman, Teachings of the Fathers of the Musar Movement
- Harvey, Falaquera’s Epistle of the Debate
- Wilson, Exceptional Places
- Freedman, Small Acts of Kindness
- Gardner, The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinical Judaism
- Bukowski, Big Bill Thompson, Chicago, and the Politics of Image
- Gallani, Dumplings, A Global History
- Parker, Panama Fever
- Hurwitz, As A Jew
- Magida, Two Wheels to Freedom
- Kass, Reading Ruth
- Allen, The Place of All Possibility
- Cameron, The Fruit of Her Hands
- Green, Moses Montefiore
- Hess, The Shoup Doctrine
- Ocejo, Sixty Miles Upriver
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January 1, 2025 What I read in 2024 (subtitles excluded- my reviews at goodreads.com and amazon.com)
- Levirate Marriage and the Family in Ancient Judaism, Weisberg
- The City is Up For Grabs, Pratt
- New York City Yesterday and Today, McDonald
- An American Orthodox Dreamer, Farber
- True Gretch, Whitmer
- The Jews of Egypt, Meleze- Modrzejewski
- Yehuda Halevi, Halkin
- Unjust Enrichment in Jewish Law, Rakover
- Key To the City, Bronin
- Sustainable Urban Design Handbook, Larco
- Inheriting the Crown in Jewish Law, Roth
- Nowhere to Live, Burling
13-16. Baal Haturim Chumash (4 volumes)
17. On the Housing Crisis, Demsas
18. Rashi: the Magic and the Mystery, Boncheck
19. Kaddish Around the World, Zweig
20. Natural Law, Emon
21. Jurisprudence and Theology, David
22. Entangled Histories, Baumgarten
23. History Lessons, Wenger
24. Maimonides and the Merchants, Cohen
25. The Pity of It All, Elon
26. The Emancipation of the Jews of Alsace, Hyman
27. The Jews of Byzantium 1204-1453, Bowman
28. Killed by A Traffic Engineer, Marshall
29. Prophets of the Past, Brenner
30. The Sisterhood, Bradley
31. Sing, Memory, Eyre
32. Free and Equal, Badinter
33. The Ornament of the World, Menocal
34. Letters from Nuremberg, Dodd
35. From Sinai to Ethiopia, Shalom
36. The 15-Minute City, Moreno
37. When Driving is Not An Option, Zivarts
38. Founder, Elon
39. The Century of Moses Montefiore, Lipman
40. Escaping the Housing Trap, Marohn
41. Jewish Life in the Fifteenth Century, Eidelberg
42. Build, Baby Build, Caplan
43. Jewish Roots in Southern Soil, Ferris
44. American Shtetel, Stolzenberg
45. The Commentary of R. Samuel ben Meir (Rashbam) on Qoheleth, Japhet
46. Joseph Ibn Kaspi’s Gevia Kesef, Herring
47. The Forgotten Borough, Gold
48. True to My God and Country, Ouzan
49. The Living City, Fitzgerald
50. Beyond Plague Urbanism, Merrifield
51. The Last Ships from Hamburg, Ujifusa
52. Esther in America, Halpern
53. Medieval Jewry in Northern France, Hazan
54. Billionaires’ Row, Clarke
55. A Modern Orthodox Life, Rackman
56. Alexander the Great, Cantor
57. From One End of the Earth to the Other, Pfeffer
58. Haskalah and History, Feiner
59. Starry Messenger, Tyson
60. The Lost Subways of North America, Berman
61.The Thirteen American Arguments, Fineman
62. A Star Shone Forth, Degani
63. Three Hundred Fifty Years, Feinberg
64. Rachel Calof’s Story, Calof
43 Jewish studies/religion/Judaism/Holocast
13 urban studies/planning
8 other (2 nov
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December 29, 2024 My 2024 posts from the Market Urbanism blog (marketurbanism.com)
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November 22, 2024 old blog posts from Market Urbanism Report
Market Urbanism Report was created by Scott Beyer; it is the ancestor of marketurbanist.com. I am not sure why I stopped blogging for it- maybe two group blogs (Market Urbanism and Planetizen) are enough for me. At any rate, attached are some posts I wrote for it.
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November 22, 2024 Old blog posts from planetizen.com, marketurbanism.com, and Congress for New Urbanism group blogs (until 2023)
Tags: blog, cities, environment, housing, sprawl, sustainability, transportation, urbanism
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