June 2013

Who Is God? Seeking a Middle Ground

God is real. A great conversation starter, isn’t it? These days, in public debate, it seems to be a great ...

Shabbat Cotton

In the early days of the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, photographer Bill Aron hit the road, capturing images ...

Putting the “Refresh, Refresh, Refresh” to Good Use

On Wednesday, my kids went analog. They hopped on the camp bus, leaving behind a trail of Instagram photos, Vine ...

What Happens When Pride Month Ends?

I’m still reeling from yesterday’s amazing news. And I’m so incredibly proud and inspired to see so many LGBTQ Jews ...

Consumer Vigilance and the Kosher Cookies-and-Cream Ice Cream Caper

Kosher food certification has come a long way in the past one hundred years (see my earlier posts on the Baff ...

Evacuation

This month, my husband and co-director, Gilad, and I are grateful for our wonderful camp kehillah (community) and for life ...

A Lonely Golem

I was trying to figure out how to get people to buy  My First Kafka  from me directly instead of, ...

Scandal and Self-Correction in Kosher Food Certification

This past March, the owner of Doheny Glatt Kosher Meat Market, Los Angeles’s largest purveyor of kosher meat, was discovered smuggling repackaged ...

Mazel Tov! DOMA and Prop 8 are struck down

Two years ago this summer, I stood under a chuppah (marriage canopy) with my wife. Because we live in Massachusetts, ...

How Very Welcoming

Hi Readers! Here’s the sign a nature center director is about to take down from the local preserve where, for ...