Jewish History

JTA is currently featuring an article about the challenge of choosing a name for a Jewish baby, so I thought ...

The L.A. Times ran a piece a few days ago on Muslim punk-rock teenagers, which mostly served as an excuse ...

Last week an older man who I know from various minyanim on the Upper West Side mentioned that he was ...

Okay, I just followed a Google Ad which led to a website advertising this book — a 636-page edition, limited ...

Last night I went to the Mechon Hadar beit midrash  for a session on prayer leaders, and what qualities a ...

Controversy time!Have an opinion on California’s Proposition 8 banning gay marriage? You are not the only one. Check out the ...

During the summer of 2007 I was a fellow at the first summer of Yeshivat Hadar, an intensive 8-week egalitarian ...

I just wanted to update everyone on the situation of Motl Brody, the 12 year old boy who was on ...

A known Israeli mobster, Yaakov Alperon, was assassinated on Monday in Tel Aviv.  Alperon’s car blew up, killing him and ...

Yesterday evening, I had one of those rare moments when I found myself watching the evening news (Truth be told, ...

In the wake of Barack Obama’s victory, there’s been quite a bit of laudable introspection on behalf of the Jewish ...

Now that we will have our first African-American president, it’s time to start speculating about the next ethnic/gender/religious barrier to ...