Dan Perlman's Blog
January 30, 2024
Buenos Aires Social Club
My first article is up on my new Substack page – a subscription service for longer form articles. Mostly they will be on food, wine, and travel, much like my... Read more >
October 25, 2022
Ye Adidas!
The Adidas controversy… Should it have been controversial at all? I mean, “Ye” was not only blatantly anti-semitic – not something new for him – but he outright defied Adidas... Read more >
July 7, 2022
Banned in 2022 #2
Picking up with a few more of the books that were “banned” this year. Again, not banned in total, but a scattering of school boards voting to remove them from... Read more >
March 8, 2022
Don’t Say… ?
There has been a lot of outcry over the “Don’t Say Gay” bill debated and recently passed by the Florida legislature (HB1557/SB1834). On one side, the claim is that the... Read more >
February 26, 2022
Banned in 2022 #1
Of late, there’s been much brouhaha over the “banning” of books. In some cases these have not been actual banning, but have been portrayed as such, for example, as I... Read more >
October 22, 2020
Action Dragons!
An article in the latest issue of Blackbelt magazine laid out the 20 best martial arts films of all time. The article is one worth paying attention to, as the opinion... Read more >
September 16, 2020
One Leaf, Every Day
By request from a friend who is the editor for the The World Congress of GLBT Jews, I wrote up this little piece for their High Holidays 5781/2020 newsletter, which... Read more >
June 13, 2020
Hidings in Plain Sight
We’re in quarantine, and what is there to do besides lots of TV, movies, online surfing, gaming, and reading. A couple of friends recommended the new book Hiding in Plain... Read more >
January 4, 2020
Two Thousand Seven Hundred and Eleven Leaves
The Talmud. You might have heard of it, you might not. I grew up knowing that it existed, but within the Reform and Conservative Jewish traditions, it’s not something... Read more >
December 6, 2019
Coloring Inside the Lines
There are, apparently, great decisions being made, behind the scenes in corporate boardrooms. We’re not talking about whether to maximize shareholder profits over social good, or hiding the latest instance... Read more >
