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The High Holidays can prove to be spiritually lacking, particularly for those of us who spend everyday surrounded by Judaism. ...
How about Gmar Chatima Tova?
Every year the President sends greetings to the Jewish people for Rosh Hashanah. President Bush has been careful to not ...
Five Years of Trembling
To commemorate the five-year anniversary of Trembling on the Road, director Sandi Dubowski has launched a campaign to celebrate and ...
Shana Tova, Ima
Since the beginning of Elul I’ve been participating in a project that has surprised and delighted me every step of ...
Teshuva (from a Christian reader)
Since I can empathize with the desire to do theological housecleaning, I thought I’d post this email we just got ...
Lamentations 9/11
I thought it would be a bit odd to have an entire day of posts without mentioning 9/11. On Faith, ...
Reviewing the Rabbi
Jews tend to be critical of High Holidays services, particularly when it comes to the performance of the rabbi. Quite ...
Welcome Reshimu
Looks like there’s a new kid on the Jewish-media block: Reshimu, a group blog made up of bloggers that “have ...
True Joy, Through Water
Canfei Nesharim, a terrific organization that works to inspire the Orthodox Jewish community to understand and act on the relationship ...
Wanted: Muslim-Jewish Dialogue
Rabbi Eric Yoffie’s speech at the Islamic Society of North America conference has been flagged by other Jewish leaders as ...
Jewish Triumphalism, Jewish Essentialism
I’ve often expressed my belief that Jewish triumphalism (be it biblical or theological) is dangerous because it will likely lead ...
Creating new ritual
Last week, the good folks at Jewschool blogged about the need for Jewish ritual in contemporary life events. Their list ...
Bible Codes
Over at Cross-Currents, Rabbi Yizchok Adlerstein has this to say about a new Jewish Action interview about the Bible codes ...
I’m too poor to daven these days.
From Craig’s List via Gawker:Come celebrate the Jewish New Year and Day of Atonement with New York’s most elite Jews. ...
Fish Heads, Kosher Honey & Teshuvah
-In “Facing the Music� Rabbi Shefa Gold gives a meditation on “Tefilah …Teshuvah … Tzedakah.� (The Shalom Center)-Here’s where that ...