"So it was that the Roman Emperor proposed to Rabbi Tanhum, 'Come, let us all be one people.' 'Very well,' he answered, 'but we who are circumcised cannot possibly become like you; do ye become circumcised and like us.' The Emperor replied, 'You have spoken well, but nevertheless, anyone who gets the better of the king [in debate] must be thrown into the vivarium.' So they threw him in, but he was not eaten. Thereupon a nonbeliever remarked: 'The reason that [the lions] do not eat him is that they are not hungry.' Whereupon they threw [the nonbeliever] in, and he was eaten."

-- Talmud Bavli, Tractate Sanhedrin 39b

Ethan Hall was born on May 31st, 1993, in San Francisco, CA, to an Israeli mother and a New Yorker father. Ethan continues to live in SF to this day, with his mother, father, sister, brother, and his neurosis, Morty.

Ethan is an Orthodox Jew, and when he is not writing online biographies, he enjoys drawing, acting, stand-up comedy, graphic design, public slander, and various other wholesome activities too numerous to mention.