Mixed Multitudes
Jews Around the World
Cuba’s Jewish community has rebounded from its low, thanks in part to several dozen converts of Cubans with Jewish roots, ...
Jewess Jeans
If you’re bored at work, check out Nerve.com’s fantastic video collection “The 50 Greatest Commerical Parodies of All Time.” But ...
Embracing the Lace Doily
I wanted to respond to a critique of a blog post of mine by Rabbi Jill Jacobs over at Jspot.First ...
The Pursuit of Happiness
This week Newsweek features an article called “Does Having Kids Make You Happy?”The author gives a list of experts, surveys, ...
Activism & Gender Issues in Israel
Three Jerusalem women from Orthodox, Conservative and Reform streams of Judaism in Israel have launched the transdenominational “Kehillat Tzedek, a ...
Oh To Be Prince Caspian
The temptation to read Judaism into pop culture is great. There is a popular Hebrew High School curiculum based on ...
The Shrinking Diaspora
Recently I heard Sammy Samuels, one of 20 Jews in left Myanmar speak about his homeland and how he made ...
Going Green: The Israeli Way
The Israel Electric Company is hoping to encourage consumers to install solar panels on rooftops by offering to buy excess ...
Wanted: Hot Rabbis.
Earlier this week, another Jewish blog wrote about this story, which reports on the growing absence of men in the ...
Vic Hershkowitz, Handball Legend
Today’s New York Times reports the death of Vic Hershkowitz one of the great handball players of all time. Competing ...