Partner Blogs

You are working on what?” most of the people I met in Jerusalem asked while I was writing When General ...

There has been a desire to pin down the central complaint of the 99%, which the Occupy Wall Street organizers ...

There are times when Jon Stewart just hits the nail on the head of an issue. Last week he had ...

As a child, I looked forward to Purim each year. I spent weeks planning my costume and savored the excitement ...

Today, Alicia Oltuski interviewes Randy Susan Meyers, who wrote The Murderer’s Daughters, about her experience touring the nation’s synagogues and JCCs ...

A few years back, the son of friends wore a green shirt to school on St. Patrick’s Day that said “Kiss ...

Today saw the spreading of some enticing rumors regarding a soon-to-be-announced ordination program out of the newly-created Kabbalah Institute (KIRR ...

Do Not Separate Yourself from the Community When a standing-room-only crowd shows up for a township meeting in a quiet, relatively ...

Sometimes, standing in line for airport security toward the beginning of my book tour, I felt I knew what my ancestors ...

This is hilarious: Imagine there’s a Jewish day school called Chagwartz. And imagine that their biggest donor, Lucius Malfoyberg, suddenly ...

There is no conformity for liberal Jewish women in the synagogue when it comes to wearing a head covering. Look ...

I went to a Modern Orthodox elementary school. For eight years I learned Hebrew (Modern and biblical), participated in Shabbat onegs ...

I have always been struck by car commercials. Car commercials to me seem unique in the world of advertising. Whereas ...

Those of us who fall under the general rubric of “believers” may feel a sense of God’s presence in our ...

The hardest thing about breaking up with the Jewish guy I dated six years ago was breaking up with his ...