Mixed Multitudes
Kaddish: It’s Different for a Girl
I haven’t written much about actually saying Kaddish in the past few months, partially because it has become so much ...
Jewish Food Tourney: #6 Apples & Honey vs #11 Matzah, #7 Hamentashen vs #10 Gefilte Fish
5 matches. No upsets. That’s just the way the cookie crumbles sometimes. I tried to push for Manischewitz Wine, but ...
New Year’s is More Important than Shabbat
Matthue just read the title of this post and passed out.New Year’s is always a weird time for me. Lately, ...
Depression and Prayer
A few years ago, right about the time I was becoming religious, I started getting hit with Seasonal Affective Disorder. ...
Jewish Food Tourney: #4 Latkes vs #13 Manischewitz Wine, #5 Cholent vs #12 Honey Cake
We got another doubleheader for you today. But first, thanks to everyone for voting. This tournament is getting higher ratings ...
Matisyahu: Return of the “King”
Although I can’t actually remember whether he played “King Without a Crown,” that iconoclastic first single that a friend swore ...
Israeli Government Twitters the War
It’s mostly PR, but it’s a kind of PR that the Israeli government hasn’t historically shown the capability to produce ...
The Holocaust, the First War in Lebanon, and Gaza Today
Last night a friend and I went to go see Waltz With Bashir, the animated Israeli film about memories of ...
Do Apples Even Grow in Germany?
Herman Rosenblatt has become famous for his amazing story of how he met his wife. He claimed that while he ...
2008: The Year in Fast Forward
2008 was so quick, and so tornadolike in its ferocity, that you may have missed some of the bigger events ...