In "H-Bloo on A-Rod,"The New Yorker tries to make sense of the Alex Rodriguez/Madonna Kabbalah brainwashing saga, and solicits commentary from several prominent Jewish scholars:“The true Kabbalists, they fasted, and I think baseball players need their carbs,” he said, and added that Rodriguez’s bronzed complexion seemed incompatible with intense Aramaic study. “If you’re a Kabbalist, you really have no time for the sun.”
Trenchant social analysis or woefully amateurish celebrity reporting? I think the latter. I was impressed with the concept of "soul-mate poaching" but how can you write an A-Rod/Madonna article (even a semi-satirical one) without using the term "affair of the heart?"
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