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Glam Doilies
Confession time: I grew up a Conservative Jew, and although I’m Orthodox now — or Hasidic, or Biala, or hairy, ...
Maybe Barack Obama is Jewish.
Today’s Jewel of Elul is written by Barack Obama. Need we say more?Just as the courageous Zionists who established the ...
I Asked You Once, I Asked You Twice…
Maurice Sendak, one of the greatest authors of our time, is turning 80–and, according to the New York Times, is ...
Review: NYC International Pickle Day
I wrote last Friday about how excited I was to go to the Pickle Festival on the Lower East Side.On ...
Getting Your Rosh Hashanah On
Not to alarm you or anything, but the High Holidays are coming up. My fam and I haven’t figured out ...
Education in Israel
Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the founder of the Revisionist movement in Zionism, has been excluded from the list of 100 personages studied ...
Lost in Translation
Yesterday in the office, I brought up a question I have had since my Bar Mitzvah, but thought I was ...
Kosher…but not
The owner of a kosher restaurant in Newton, Massachusetts suspended his kosher certification, letting his former employers know that, simply, ...
Rabbi Dov Linzer On Science & Halakha
This past Wednesday night, Rabbi Dov Linzer, the Rosh Yeshivah of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah spoke at NYU’s L’SHMA Lecture Series ...
See Mickey? Get Away!
Top 3 reasons not to work at Disney World inside a Mickey Mouse costume:1) The kids. So many kids.2) The ...
Hope, Not Fear
Edgar M. Bronfman is among the Jewish community’s leading philanthropists, and his commitment to this website in particular has been ...
Democrats Don’t Have Internet
In April 2005, The Solomon Project came out with a study showing that 77% of the American Jews voted for ...
You may say she’s a dreamer
Today’s Jewel of Elul is written by philanthropist/superwoman Lynn Schusterman. She writes about dreaming big.Being a philanthropist, I am constantly ...
The International AIDS Conference
This guest post comes to us from Sara Hahn of the American Jewish World Service. She attended the International AIDS ...
family members shovel earth into grave
Last weekend, reporter Berny Morson of the Rocky Mountain News was assigned to cover the funeral of a 3-year-old boy. ...