Mixed Multitudes
The Missing Tallis Bag
Heirlooms are a funny thing to me. For the most part, old things are bad. My shoes for example. I ...
The Smell of Non-Kosher Food
I spoke to Stephanie, who was coming out of the very tasty (and very not kosher) Tartine Bakery, on 18th ...
Israeli Response to Obama’s Cairo Speech
Thumbs up:Yossi Sarid called it “the speech of our lives, the lives of all the damned in all the areas ...
Ortho-Inmates Get Unfair Treatment
Today on the subway the guy next to me was reading this story in the Post and all I could ...
Jews on the Chocolate Trail
“Every time I put a piece of chocolate in my mouth, the entire world grinds to a screeching, blinding halt,” ...
Let the Haters Eat Cake
So far, June has been pretty depressing. Dr. Tiller was shot. A neo-Nazi stormed the Holocaust museum Luckily, I just ...
Jews and Languages
In a first, the Knesset officially marked Yiddish Language and Culture Day on June 2, including the release of a ...
Holocaust Museum Shooting: The Roundup & Reaction
It’s the day after a fatal shooting of a security guard in the Washington Holocaust Museum, and the Jewish world ...
Interview: Matt Bar’s Bible Raps
Matt Bar sees dead people.He doesn’t hold seances or visit graveyards — not literal graveyards, anyway. Instead, he takes revisits ...
No One Laughs at God in a Hospital
I’ve fallen off my blogging recently because I’ve been overwhelmed with other stuff, but the minute I heard this new ...