Literature, memory, modern art (particularly Chagall), philosophical inquiries, religion, theological discussions, the Holocaust, Israeli politics, films by Krzystoff Kieslowski, midrash, high-heeled shoes, Jewish fiction, darkness, Maltese dogs, and denim.
Emmanuel Levinas, Jael (the biblical woman who drove a tent stake through Sisera's head), Samuel Bak, Bon Jovi, David Grossman, Bertha (the mad woman in the attic in Jane Eyre), Jesus, Bono, people who like to discuss Jewish topics.
Regina Spektor, Imogen Heap, Soviet Kitsch, Tori Amos, Beth Orton, Damien Rice, Triky Spade, Killers, Counting Crows, U2, Coldplay, Jay-Z, Madonna, Casting Crowns, Beck, Missy Higgins, Matisyahu, Moby, Keren Ann, Bon Jovi, Mary J Blige, Jem, Shivaree, Shakira, Frou Frou, Watermark, Leigh Nash, 2pac, Mindy Smith, Gwen Stefani
The Decalogue, all Krzystoff Kieslowski films, The Constant Gardener, Munich, The Royal Tenenbaums, Run Lola Run, City of God, Motorcycle Diaries, Overboard, Dodgeball, Woody Allen films, 50 First Dates, Cinema Paradiso, Nowhere in Africa, Walk the Line, House of Sand and Fog, The Virgin Suicides, Amelie, Fried Green Tomatoes
Sex and the City, The Travel Channel, One Tree Hill, Curb Your Enthusiasm
Blindness (Jose Saramago), See: Under Love (David Grossman), Heir to the Glimmering World (Cynthia Ozick), The Nakedness of the Fathers (Alicia Ostriker), Nine Talmudic Readings (Emmanuel Levinas), The Writing of the Disaster (Maurice Blanchot), I and Thou (Martin Buber), The Mind-Body Problem (Rebecca Goldstein), City of God (E.L. Doctorow), Wide Sargasson Sea (Jean Rhys), One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez), The Far Euphrates (Aryeh Lev Stollman), The Dying Animal (Philip Roth), The Russian Debutante's Handbook (Gary Shteyngart), anything by Kafka, Love (Toni Morrison), The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera), Fear and Trembling (Soren Kierkegaard), Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (Oscar Hijuelos)
Nice people. Strong people. Smart people. Sincere people. People who are infinitely responsible.