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More Expensive by the DozenThursday, October 11, 2012 by Dara Horn | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A hundred years ago, industrial efficiency expert Frank Gilbreth, Jr. claimed that children were “cheaper by the dozen.” Recently the economist Bryan Caplan made the modern version of the self-interested argument for producing more offspring. In an exclusive feature from the current issue of the Jewish Review of Books, novelist Dara Horn elegantly begs to differ. —The Editors
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Elegy for a Tree Barry Kornblau, Torah Musings. For the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy: A rabbi eulogizes a downed tree. It is no accident, he says, that Proverbs describes the Torah as a “tree of life.”