Mixed Multitudes
Every Nebbishy Boy’s Dream
Israel is a Jewish state. There are all types of Jews there. In explaining the nature of the state, someone ...
Yom HaZikaron
I would not redo high school for a billion dollars. I’m pretty sure the damage done by my four years ...
It Bears Repeating
Remembering fallen soldiers is a weird thing. Personally, I find it difficult to really feel pain and sorrow for people ...
Jew on the Train
Judaism is one of those cultural identities that, for most people, is able to be turned on or off. Matt ...
We Remember
When one speaks about Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day, almost always the first thing mentioned is the the two-minute siren ...
The Cabalist’s Daughter
The Cabalist’s Daughter is a bipolar sort of book. On one hand, it’s a crazy, unhinged vision of the Chabad-Lubavitch ...
Who’s Your Mommy?
About six months ago I went out to coffee with some friends who, after about an hour of chitchat, gently ...
Fine, We’ll Return the Pound of Flesh.
There are a lot of news stories about anti-Semitism. I just searched the term on Google News, and five pages ...
Nice Jewish Girls Get Hit
This weeks marks the anniversary of an event I don’t really like to talk about. At some point in college ...
This Week in “Are They Jewish?”
Last week, I got an e-mail from my mom. It was only one line and it read, “Do you know ...