Jewish History
Is Good Food Excessively Indulgent?
(Cross-posted at The Jew and the Carrot) I wrote about this once before, but wanted to return to the topic ...
Is Gen-WE Jewish?
Check out this excellent video, meant to complement a new book called Generation WE by Eric Greenberg and Karl Weber. ...
Only in America
Guest blogger Simcha Weinstein is the rabbi of the Pratt Institute. His latest book, Shtick Shift: Jewish Humor in the ...
The Chabad Emissaries of Cool
In areas like Williamsburg, Brooklyn, hipsters and Hasidim have existed in their own separate worlds, isolated except for rare events ...
Aish isn’t the only Keruv program around.
Yesterday, I attended a session with Rabbi Chuck Simon, the Executive Director of the Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs, a ...
Jewish Publication Society: Until 120 and On
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, speaking at last night’s Jewish Publication Society 120th Anniversary Banquet, could not constrain himself from talking ...
Historic Moment for the Conservative Movement
Yesterday, the Rabbinical Assembly elected Rabbi Julie Schoenfeld to be their next Executive Vice President, the highest administrative position in ...
Daily Show Democrats and Larry-publicans
Guest blogger Simcha Weinstein is the rabbi of the Pratt Institute. His latest book, Shtick Shift: Jewish Humor in the ...
Size Doesn’t Matter (Seriously)
Last night I met up with some of my old friends from the Jewish Society at Oxford, and remembered how ...
Better find a friend who takes good notes.
Sorry gentile college students of Toronto. That long weekend trip to Cape Cod you were planning next Rosh Hashanah is ...
Want to fix the world? There is a solution.
A recent trend in commercials about political issues is to have a close up of a famous celebrity/sad looking child’s ...
A Different Kind of “From the Academy”
Recently a group of more than 250 Jewish studies scholars endorsed Barack Obama. At first I was a little confused ...