Sunday Sentence

Every weekend I participate in David Abrams’s “#SundaySentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

That there is a word for this relationship tells you everything you need to know about our culture.

Source: The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia: From Abraham to Zabar’s and Everything in Between by Stephanie Butnick, Liel Leibovitz, and Mark Oppenheimer.

Sunday Sentence

Every weekend I participate in David Abrams’s “#SundaySentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

When you study a Jewish text and create new meaning out of it, you engage in the most central practice in the Jewish religion.

Source: David A.M. Wilensky, “Getting Drunk on Jewish Texts and Arts at LABA Launch” (J, The Jewish News of Northern California)

Sunday Sentence

Every weekend I participate in David Abrams’s “#SundaySentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

(The movie veers into science fiction when it features a female editor in chief and a 90s-era Esquire staff filled with people of color.)

Source: Taffy Brodesser-Akner, “This Tom Hanks Story Will Help You Feel Less Bad” (The New York Times)