My friend Ari Johnson is fond of saying that his favorite thing about Judaism is the way it transforms the mundane into holy. Judaisms, at
Reading “My Holocaust” (Tova Reich’s satirical send-up of the Holocaust industry) during my short vacation this summer in northern California was at the bottom of
I know we’re living in a post-Harry Potter era, but I thought that this article on translating the Hogwarts tales into Hebrew was kinda cute,
The Progressive Jewish Alliance has put together a brochure with texts and thoughts on what tshuvah is and what it demands of us–and how it
Mazal tov to General Anna and Jewschool’s own Ruby K!!! May they have many more years of happiness together, and many more years of bringing
(I apologize for writing the same thing about Dan as I wrote in April, but the fact remains that you must check him out!) Tonight
A few days ago, the New York Times ran an article describing the apparent renewal of kibbutzim in Israel. After years of decline, beginning inthe
OK, I grant you, this isn’t exactly my usual territory, but I just had to share with you all. Salon contributor Jonah Keri writes about
…and, come on, who would be surprised that it’s me posting this? Adam Schechter, editor of the libidinous online poetry journal The Blue Jew Yorker,
On this labor day weekend, one of the things we should be considering, aside from the al haEsh and the sales, is the great debt