For our spring event this year, Limmud NY is trying something a little different, which we’re calling Limmud Across NY. All day on Sunday, April
TWJ posted a link on Twitter to this article involving a collaboration between hipsters and Hasids. Aside from the rather fascinating story, it got me
The first cup of wine is drunk whilst reclining This, they tell you, is because formal meals during the classical rabbinic period were conducted in
From today’s Nutjob Anti-Semites With Scary Amounts of Power files, Salon reports, Last week, retired Bishop Giacomo Babini of the Italian town of Grosseto told
The National Havurah Committee Summer Institute 2010 is now accepting application for the Everett Fellows Program. Fellows participate in the full Summer Institute programming and
Yom HaShoah is upon us. I’m in Israel, where at 10 am everyone stops and a siren softly screams. It rocked me. This day, and
In the wake of the Massey Energy coal mine explosion, some of the inner workings of Pharaoh, Inc. have become more transparent. This is from
Sayed Kashua’s latest Ha’aretz column is worth a gander and a chuckle. (Here’s the Hebrew original.) Once, going back five years or maybe more, I
The effectiveness of the Israeli Defense Forces is a miracle. Reading Joel Chasnoff’s humorous memoir, The 188th Crybaby Brigade: A Skinny Jewish Kid from Chicago