Intermittent Jewschool contributor and beloved perennial pariah Douglas Rushkoff has been keeping himself rather busy as of late. Amongst juggling a nine month-old, a brand
äéúáåããåú (hitbodedut), literally “seclusion,” is the act of speaking directly to God. It is described by the Breslov Institute as such: [H]itbodedut is raw, unadulterated
Commenting on the uproar caused by their attempts to sideline the UK’s Holocaust Memorial Day, Iqbal Sacranie, secretary general of The Muslim Council of Britain,
The AP reports, Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor who helped track down numerous Nazi war criminals following World War II then spent the later decades
Reuven Koret, CEO of Koret Communications and interim editor-in-chief of Jewsweek magazine writes, Dan, while you did a decent job summarizing my dispute with Jewcy,
The 2005 Jewish Music Awards The first Jewish Music Awards was founded this year by Michael Dorf, the festival’s producer, in order “to show respect
The National Foundation for Jewish Culture is giving some cash money to an emerging (whatever that means) visual artist and an emerging fiction writer, and
Steven I. Weiss writes, How’ve J-Orgs Responded to Racial Profiling of Arabs? That’s something I’m trying to figure out, in light of the hubbub over
Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Schrieber Illuminates Foer’s Manuscript by Lilit Marcus Many of the other people with whom I discussed Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel
j. reports, Once upon a time, a bridegroom jokingly recited his marriage vows over a skeletal finger protruding from the earth. After placing his ring