Sports Illustrated is covering a story about a boys basketball team that might be forced to end their playoff run because they are shomer shabbat.
Props to Hannah Farber over at jspot (Jewish Funds for Justice’s blog) for her short, pithy piece entitled “I’m Going to Count to Three, and
Just a public service announcement for those in states with primaries tomorrow — Alabama, Alaska, American Samoa, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho,
For anyone looking for some good tunes to snuggle up with during these winter days (even snowing in Israel this week!), soul songster Shir Yaakov
Samantha Shapiro of the NYTimes Magazine takes the Hartman decision to ordain women as Orthodox rabbis to the pages of The Slate. (If you’ve never
On New Year’s Day, I was driving back from celebrating with friends at a little cabin in the woods. It was already into the evening
Leonard Nimoy, who brought Star Trek the priestly blessing before becoming an art photographer (including “The Shekhina Project”) has just released a new photography book
Shir-Yaakov (center) making some music with the fine folks last year at Isabella Freedman. Giving some props to everyone’s favorite wandering Jewsician Rabbi Shir-Yaakov Feinstein-Feit
The Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, the largest award of its kind ($100,000) announced yesterday its five finalists for 2008 year. They are: •
Christian Newswire tells us the real meaning of Chanukah, while quoting a rabbi speaking for the charedi Igud HaRabonim/Rabbinical Alliance of America: Rabbi Yehuda Levin