Daniel Septimus

As Meredith noted recently, the Holocaust film industry is experiencing (even by Holocaust film industry standards) a very successful run, ...

Traditional Judaism prohibits men from shaving their face with a razor. While many (or most) Ultra-Orthodox Jews don’t shave at ...

Since his death at age 98 a few weeks ago, I’ve been meaning to write a bit about Rabbi Emanuel ...

A friend recently passed on info about this new program designed for social entrepreneurs with an interest in fostering mutual ...

For those who still care about dysfunction in the Bush White House, the President delivered a special, early Hanukkah Christmas ...

Last week, I blogged about the Jewish community’s (and particularly the Orthodox community’s) confrontation with residual racism (in light of ...

In the wake of Barack Obama’s victory, there’s been quite a bit of laudable introspection on behalf of the Jewish ...

Now that we will have our first African-American president, it’s time to start speculating about the next ethnic/gender/religious barrier to ...

I haven’t yet seen Bill Maher’s new documentary Religulous, but it’s premise is hardly novel. By now, we know the ...

Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, is an old-school organization in the very best sense. It’s BIG (the largest ...