Mixed Multitudes
Poll: The Next Knight in Shining Armor
Yesterday, in London, Israeli President Shimon Peres was honored by the Queen of England by becoming a knight. I tried ...
A Baby By Any Other Name…
JTA is currently featuring an article about the challenge of choosing a name for a Jewish baby, so I thought ...
Texas, O Texas
An update on the evolution debate my home state of Crazyland, aka Texas. Just before the school year, the board ...
The Virgin Bride
In recent months I have received a flurry of wedding invitations. I have also been helping plan my sister’s wedding, ...
Hard Core Religion
The L.A. Times ran a piece a few days ago on Muslim punk-rock teenagers, which mostly served as an excuse ...
2009 will rock
So it’s that time of the year when many people start buying calendars for next year. And some nice Jewish ...
What Happens Then?
Last week an older man who I know from various minyanim on the Upper West Side mentioned that he was ...
You got served! Jewish non-profit style!
Shalom TV is starting up a war! Everybody hit the floor so you don’t get hit!In an interview this week ...
Out of the Extraordinary
Today on Nextbook, I wrote an article about the brilliant Motown funk of the Israeli colony of Dimona, a Hasidic ...
Signs that Jewish trendiness is dying
Okay, I just followed a Google Ad which led to a website advertising this book — a 636-page edition, limited ...