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God in Search of Facebook

Apparently, Abraham Joshua Heschel has a Facebook page. I want him to be my friend. But what if he says ...

Reading A.M. Klein

In my latest column for the Jerusalem Post, I examine the work of a wonderful, though virtually forgotten, North American ...

Norman Mailer

We’ve managed, though not aimed, to omit from the blog the passing of writer Norman Mailer last Saturday. Rather than ...

Bringing Down Rubashkin’s

Apparently, Agriprocessors/Rubashkin’s — the largest glatt kosher slaughterhouse in the world — is in trouble again.The PETA-challenged company issued a ...

Jewish Leadership & Philanthropy

-Ariel Beery and Aharon Horwitz, the co-founders of the PresenTense Institute for Creative Zionism, say that Jews need to “replace ...

Steinhardt: Hebrew Charter Schools are the Answer

For months we’ve been hearing about the Areivim Fund, the Michael Steinhardt-led, $100 million fund for…something.Now we’re getting some clues ...

Why Can’t Jews Fight Crime Too?

So, a couple of months ago I’m visiting my parents for the High Holidays and I’m watching Letterman, and Dave ...

More on the GA and da Young Folk

JTA’s Jacob Berkman has written up a detailed article about the “youth-focused” sessions at the GA. He quotes me criticizing ...

Jew vs. Jew in the Name of Religion

-When a custodial parent and a 13-year have sharply different religious views, whose view should prevail? (Forward)-The rapidly growing ultraorthodox ...

From the GA: Condi Speaks

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice just finished her address to the GA. She did everything right that Howard Dean did ...

From the GA: Are We Too Narcissistic?

For years, the UJC has been promising to give “the younger generation” a more prominent public role at the GA. ...

More Blogging from the GA

As you saw before, our Editor-in-Chief is blogging from UJC’s General Assembly. Also blogging is comprehensive staff from the Jewish ...

That’s Irving Spiderman to You!

Around 2002 when the first Spider-Man movie came out, The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart joked that now that Spidey was ...

The GA: Howard Dean Bombs

For the next couple of days, I’m in Nashville at the United Jewish Communities General Assembly — the annual mega-conference ...

Is Your Dog Jewish?

In fact, my dog is Jewish. Here’s how I know.I recently moved with my husband to an outer suburb of ...

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