This high holiday season was new for me in many ways. It was my first away from my family, it was the first time I
This series has been crossposted to The Reform Shuckle. Here is the Intro. To those of you who were worried that I was unhealthily smug,
Through writing I have committed many a wrong, but unlike those whose faces I see, I will likely never know the vast majority of people
Ynet reports, Rabbi Elyashiv of the Lithuanian stream of ultra-Orthodoxy has ruled that it is best not to wear Crocs shoes on Yom Kippur even
So I’ve been reading the script (downloadable here) to the film Inglourious Basterds. And it’s pretty over-the-top insane. Not that you wouldn’t expect that from
Read on – last chance to be a featured Jewschool blogger! Finalists will be posted after Yom Kippur Jewschool & JStreet Blog/Vlog Competition NEW Deadline:
Joseph Dana and Max Blumenthal did it first, but Al-Jazeera repeats the experiment, exposing the misperceptions of Obama’s race and religion among Jerusalem-goers. Compare the
Although most modern Jews have abandoned the practice of Kapores, in some parts of the community, it is still common. I’m not sure what the
Barbra Streisand is selling off her stuff. You could own a piece of the legend. Better yet, proceeds benefit her foundation, which supports a bunch