Israel
Alice Walker Denies The Color Purple’s Power
Alice Walker is one of my favorite authors ever, hands down. The Temple of My Familiar might have been the ...
The Future of the Past
In a recent Commentary article, Jack Wertheimer once again takes on the trends in American Jewry – individualism, pluralism, universalism, anti-tribalism, ...
Remembering and Keeping Memorial Day
I was thinking today about a Memorial Day breakfast I attended a couple years ago at the home of a ...
Day Schools and the End of the Melting Pot
I met Peter Beinart in 1999 when he was writing an article for The Atlantic on Jewish community day schools. ...
The Magic of Summer Camp
When my ten year old daughter heads to sleep-away camp this summer she will follow a family tradition that began the ...
Reciprocal Receiving on Rosh Chodesh
The Western Wall beckoned at the beginning of the new Hebrew month of Kislev, 5760. I was studying at the ...
Sacha Baron Cohen Speaks Hebrew
Hey, did any of you see Sacha Baron Cohen on The Daily Show the other night? More specifically, did anyone ...
Vote for Rabbi…….
Well I did not make it to the Newsweek Rabbi list, or even the My Jewish Learning Real Top Rabbi ...
Yom Ha’atzmaut, Motorcycles Included
Tomorrow is Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israeli Independence Day! To celebrate, we thought we’d share this mini-documentary we filmed one year at ...
Bageling
Have you ever been ‘bageled’? “Bageling” is: the conscious act – or speech – of a non-obviously looking Jewish individual ...
The Secret Code of “Hava Negilah”
“Hava Nagila“ (Hebrew: הבה נגילה ) (lit. “Let us rejoice”) is a Hebrew folk song that has become a staple ...
Waiting Too Long to Teach about Israel
I had an all too familiar conversation with someone the other day who was talking about a community Jewish high ...