Her funeral got us all back together and we decided we're not gonna be apart anymore, That was our home and that's where our lifelong friends started.

The minute I found out that Three Cheers was going out I called the Meriden postmaster that day. It's got to be two months ago.

The richer you were, the sooner you moved. The Jewish community on the east side became stronger.

These people are all pretty successful. We want to make sure these kids have the same opportunity to be successful as we did.

The exchange of ideas and expertise will provide a forum for best-in-class improvements and advances for participants.

The Talmud offered a virtual home for an uprooted culture, and grew out of the Jewish need to pack civilization into words and wander out into the world. The Talmud became essential for Jewish survival once the Temple - God's pre-Talmud home - was destroyed, and the Temple practices, those bodily rituals of blood and fire and physical atonement, could no longer be performed. When the Jewish people lost their home (the land of Israel) and God lost His (the Temple), then a new way of being was devised and Jews became the people of the book and not the people of the Temple or the land. They became the people of the book because they had no place else to live. That bodily loss is frequently overlooked, but for me it lies at the heart of the Talmud, for all its plenitude. The Internet, which we are continually told binds us together, nevertheless engenders in me a similar sense of diaspora, a feeling of being everywhere and nowhere. Where else but in the middle of Diaspora do you need a home page?