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Tisha B’Av and the Olympic Games

What happens when the saddest day on the Jewish calendar, the Ninth of Av, which memorializes the destruction of King ...

Pick a Destiny, Any Destiny

David Blaine’s street magic specials are always fun to watch. If you haven’t seen what he does, this is a ...

It Takes Two

As a writer, I’ve paid scant attention to the images that accompany my work. I’m usually too preoccupied with the ...

Conquering the monsters beneath our bed… where the Wild Things really are

I want to share the chorus of one of my favorite Indigo Girls songs with you:So we’re ok, we’re fine, ...

In Pursuit of Learning

Yesterday was a big day for our family. My daughter graduated from college. She was the fourth of our five ...

A Nice Jewish Girl on the Balance Beam

When you tell someone that you used to do gymnastics, she frequently answers that she, too, did it. When she ...

Montefiore’s Ramsgate

Sunday June 17th will be Montefiore day in Ramsgate, the faded seaside resort where Sir Moses and his wife Judith lived ...

There Are Places I Remember…..

An Orthodox rabbinic colleague Rabbi Zev Farber recently posted on Morethodoxy a piece on the experience of place women have ...

In Moses Montefiore’s Footsteps

For the past ten years I’ve been travelling the world in Moses Montefiore’s footsteps. This was a man who spent ...

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 notice ...

And the Rabbi Is….

It’s been awesome to watch the Real Top Rabbis contest unfold — nearly 250 of you sent in stories about ...

The Supreme Court and the Health Care Act – A Populist Response

   I can’t seem to decide, do I want to move America “Forward” or do I “Believe in America”?  I’m ...

Historians, Biographers

Dr. Abigail Green’s new book, Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero, is now available.What makes a good biography? I thought ...

Rabbis Without Borders: A Vision

Have you been wondering what a Rabbi Without Borders really is? We have produced a video which describes who we ...

On Cinco de Mayo: Jews on the edge of Tequila

Sipping margaritas, doing shots of tequila, listening mariachi music and dancing the hora.Not in a million years would I have ...

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