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Why Didn’t the Chicken Get to Cross the Road?

It’s that time of year again. That time when I can’t decide whether to stand with my holy-but-barbaric brothers and ...

A Mitzvah that goes beyond borders

Our good friends at the Jewish Publication Society have recently published a fantastic new book.  Since WWII, Jewish armed servicemen/women ...

Pondering Historical Questions

Rabbi David Ellenson gives a broad historical overview on “How Modernity Changed Judaism�. (Institute for Global Jewish Affairs) A memoir ...

Asking Forgiveness

I don’t know about you, but I’m constantly haunted.It might just be my social awkwardness speaking (because, really, when’s the ...

Joe Six Pack and the Jews

Unless your internet is down and you don’t have cable (a quick shout out to my brother), you know that ...

An Issue with Lubavitch

The new issue of the Jewish college student magazine New Voices just released its new issue, focusing on the world ...

Rosenberg rehash

With the recent news about Julius and Ethel Rosenberg that one of them of them was innocent — and that, ...

The Fast of Gedaliah

Answer us, God, on this day of fasting, because we are in great pain. This morning, when I read the ...

“Rosh Hashana” is a nicer way of saying Screwing Up Less Often

Oh, yeah — we hit it again. Two parking tickets this morning, and one’s more than $100. Man, this Rosh ...

Help me Natalie Portman. You’re my only hope.

I’m not sure of many things.  But one thing I am sure of is that Natalie Portman and I are ...

How to Repent Right

The idea of repentance always fills me with performance anxiety. Most of it’s due to the prayer service, which starts ...

The Great Schlep

My parents aren’t grandparents yet. And this would be a really awkward way to tell them I’m pregnant, which I’m ...

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