I woke up Wednesday morning with a new bounce in my step. Today was the day I was going to make things happen, I had people I wanted to meet, a networking party to attend and I wasn’t about to let my tired old self back out of the closet. This was made possible by […]

I’m a big proponent of making the Torah relevant for modern society and everyday life. Maybe it’s my whole Orthodox Jew trip of believing that Torah was given to us as a gift. Maybe it’s because I’m a writer, and I want to believe that the stories we tell have life beyond when we tell […]

It was only a matter of time until a halakhic question would somehow creep into the Michael Jackson madness. In all the craziness of Jackson’s death, there are very real questions that have to do with the custody of Michael Jackson’s children.
While the issue I’m going to bring up will probably not come up in […]

Inbal Freund-Novick is an organizational consultant and co-founder of The Unmasked Comics Project, a social change comics venture with comics artist Chari Pere. After spending a year as a visiting fellow at JPPPI (The Jewish People Policy Planning Institute), she currently serves in the World Jewish Diplomatic Corps of the World Jewish Congress.
Freund-Novick is […]

Are there really more Muslims than Jews in the US? (Chicago Jewish News)
Should Jews shun “Messianic Jews“? (Beliefnet)
Soli Shahvar, Amos Harel & Avi Issacharoff, and Douglas Bloomfield argue that, for Israel, the victory of incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is actually preferable. (YNet, Ha’aretz, Jerusalem Post)
A look at the impact of extremely large families in the […]

Inbal Freund-Novick is an organizational consultant and co-founder of The Unmasked Comics Project, a social change comics venture with comics artist Chari Pere. After spending a year as a visiting fellow at JPPPI (The Jewish People Policy Planning Institute), she currently serves in the World Jewish Diplomatic Corps of the World Jewish Congress.
Freund-Novick is […]

Inbal Freund-Novick is an organizational consultant and co-founder of The Unmasked Comics Project, a social change comics venture with comics artist Chari Pere. After spending a year as a visiting fellow at JPPPI (The Jewish People Policy Planning Institute), she currently serves in the World Jewish Diplomatic Corps of the World Jewish Congress.
Freund-Novick is […]

This is the best birthday present I’ve gotten all year.
Regina Spektor’s third proper album, Far, is like that cynical older cousin who you love to sit next to at family functions. Totally funny, mostly good-natured, and both angry and delicious — angrilicious? — like the kind of person who says all the things you […]

Inbal Freund-Novick is an organizational consultant and co-founder of The Unmasked Comics Project, a social change comics venture with comics artist Chari Pere. After spending a year as a visiting fellow at JPPPI (The Jewish People Policy Planning Institute), she currently serves in the World Jewish Diplomatic Corps of the World Jewish Congress.
Freund-Novick is […]

This past weekend I went to a family bat mitzvah in the DC area. It was an intense weekend, full of family balagan, but one of the most remarkable parts about the weekend, for me at least, was the dvar Torah that Rabbi Michael Feshbach gave on Friday night.
Rabbi Feshbach spoke, among other things, about […]