Mixed Multitudes

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Sephardic Music on Demand

This week in New York is the Sephardic Music Festival, and though, if you’ve been to a Sephardic music concert ...

Jewish Food Tourney: #1 Matzah Ball Soup vs #16 Haroset

March Madness just can’t come early enough. Experiencing a mix of hunger and need for competition, my friend Jordan and ...

Latke Alternatives

I love potatoes and I love most things fried, but honestly, I have a hard time getting down with latkes. ...

Blending Traditions on Hanukkah

Motherlode, the parenting blog at NYTimes.com, has a really interesting post with a new twist on the age-old problem of ...

News Roundup: The World, Minus Menorahs

I’m feeling over-Hanukkah-ized these days. This is, granted, the week where, in Jewish media, real news moves over to make ...

Are Nuns Too Forgiving?

I’m dying to see the new Meryl Streep movie, Doubt, about a nun with a bone to pick, but in ...

I Want to Be a Rebbe

My rebbe is an awesome man. His family lives in a little falling-apart shack on the edge of Boro Park, ...

Rabbi Rackman z”l

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

Will the Madoff Scandal See a Rise in Anti-Semitism in America?

The Ponzi Scheme involving Bernie Madoff stealing some $50 Billion is kind of a big deal. I wouldn’t even know ...

Just what the ghetto needs: More alcohol.

In last Sunday’s New York Times, Paula Roth (no relation) covers the opening of a new bar in an area ...

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