Meredith Kesner Lewis
Meredith Lewis is the Director of Operations at MyJewishLearning.com. Meredith holds an MA in Hebrew and Judaic studies and an MPA in non-profit finance from New York University. She also received a BS in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Meredith has served as an advisor for United Synagogue Youth in the Westchester and Rockland Counties area as well as an education consultant.
Articles by Meredith Kesner Lewis
Robert Alter has no soul
In a piece from Slate last month, renowned bible translator Robert Alter describes the process of translating Psalms, for his ...
I’d walk for 40 years with him.
From the Forward: Moses and God are coming to the big screen later this month. “The Ten Commandments,� an animated ...
Lay Kodesh
Yesterday I blogged about JOI’s Big Tent Judaism initiative. As I got to thinking more about problem of being welcoming ...
Big Tent Judaism
This week, Rabbi Kerry Olitzky of the Jewish Outreach Institute, along with Rabbi Elliot Dorf of the American Jewish University, ...
I’d like to buy a vowel
This past weekend, Jews began, once again, to read the Torah cycle. As most people know, the Torah scroll itself ...
A Map Quest
Prior to the High Holidays, the New York Board of Rabbis previewed its official Jewish New York History and Heritage ...
I’m only going to do this once
Lots has been put out there in the Jewish world (particularly the blogging community) about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit ...
An Original Hipster
Jennifer Bleyer, founding editor of Heeb Magazine, has an essay on the continued meaning that the Jewish Catalog has for her ...
Taking shmita to a new level
Yesterday New Jersey officials confirmed that a swastika covering several acres was cut into a field in Washington Township. Police ...
Kol Nidre Services Online
This year the Jewish TV Network will be broadcasting live Kol Nidre services from the Wilshire Boulevard Temple on its ...