Mixed Multitudes
Jennifer Steinman’s “Motherland”: Mourning and Rejoicing in Africa
Filmmaker Jennifer Steinman has completed projects for PBS, the Discovery Channel, The Food Network and The Gap. Her first feature-length ...
The New Year Will Be Televised
Last year, we got an awesome letter — from Antarctica — asking whether we knew of any services that would ...
Michael Jordan-6, Tamir Goodman-0
It’s a sad day in the basketball world. Tamir Goodman, the high school senior who swept the nation ten years ...
Our Favorite Cantor
What is a cantor? Most of my Christian friends don’t understand: The position of the cantor, or hazzan, is sort ...
How to Be Jewish (and Yourself)
I got a pretty wild question in my inbox the other day, in regard to a college application:“‘I am a ...
Living Actively
Our partner, The Samuel Bronfman Foundation, regularly hosts Jewish study sessions on a variety of different topics. Â Last week, they ...
The Debate Rages On
Every year, after Labor Day, as summer comes to a close and the leaves start to change colors, a fight ...
Kanye, Meet the Apologenator 5000
This Kanye West guy has got to go away. I’ve never really been a fan (I mean, except for this ...
Oh, Honey Honey!
Taste-testing apples and honey. Apples and honey are the quintessential Rosh Hashanah snack. We eat them and hope that we ...
The Best of the Week
Soooooooooooooooooooo…what happened this week? Funny you should ask, kids. Funny you should ask.Plenty of Rosh Hashanah stuff for you to ...
J Street, Health Care, and Money Matters
Lenny Ben-David argues that J Street has formed an “alliance with …. the Iranian lobby” and wonders whether “detractors of ...
Todd & God Want To Remind You About Fruit
I feel like it was just yesterday that I broke my fast from Yom Kippur and thought, “Well, thank God ...