2013
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 ...
Vinyl for Hipsters vs. Vinyl for High Holy Days: Or, “Old School Columbia Records”
This blog post was written by Anna Stusser, a summer intern currently working in the Museum Department at the ISJL.Vinyl ...
Overturning DOMA and the blessing of being seen
This morning I waited until the Supreme Court convened before posting here. Elation is the feeling that many of us ...
Transforming Stories
A Small Revolution in a Synagogue Book GroupThis past January, Hebrew College invited poet and scholar Joy Ladin to speak ...