Mixed Multitudes
Is This Rape?
Have you heard about this story from Israel yet?Sabbar Kashur is an Arab-Israeli from Jerusalem. He met an Israeli woman, ...
A Peace Anthem
Just to follow up a bit on my time at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal, I heard some ...
News to Make You Frown
Hey look, the New York Times is running two of the most depressing stories I’ve heard in months. And both ...
Jewish Food for the Summer
In the winter I never have any trouble planning Shabbat and holiday menus. Many of the most basic and quintessential ...
Schindler’s List and Hip-Hop Remembrance
When I was in Junior Congregation services at OCJCC-BI in Philadelphia, we spent Tisha B’Av — the holiday that’s the ...
Beyond Random
Have you ever looked back at an evening and gone, “That was the strangest night of all time!” I think ...
Really, Let It Go
On Tuesday I worked my once-per-season shift at my Hazon CSA. It mostly involved hanging around and socializing, but every ...
Wise Fridays: Heaven and Land
“Each people has as much heaven over its head as it has land under its feet. ” —Hayim Nahman Bialik ...
What’s Your Jew (for Jesus) #Ish?
As part of a new marketing campaign to hit the young Jews and the unsold Jews, the Jewish Federations of ...
Joshua Braff Goes to 770
On Monday, Joshua Braff wrote about falling in love and chasing girls at a Jewish day school. He has been blogging ...