History
A Scholar At Woodstock
“Guess who eats together at the Carnegie Deli. Bowzer from Sha Na Na and Arthur Fonzarelli.”Adam Sandler is right. Jon ...
The Week That Was
As the week comes to a close, it is time to look back at the best of times. There were ...
The Most Dangerous Contraband of All
In his last blogs, Charles London talked about a collected Jewish museum and the Abayudaya Jews of Uganda.The ancient Israelites ...
The Abayudaya Jews of Uganda
In his last blog, Charles London talked about a collected Jewish museum.The Jerusalem Post has published a report, unsurprising to ...
Inglorious Basterds–The First of Many.
Over the next few weeks, you are going to hear a lot about Quentin Tarantino’s new film, Inglorious Basterds. Actually, ...
Celebrating the Global People
Charles London, author of Far From Zion: The Search for a Global Community, is guest-blogging for MyJewishLearning and the Jewish ...
Best of the Rest
These weeks just go by so fast. Last week, we had Tisha B’Av and lurking in the distance are those ...
Going Down to Yasgur’s Farm
I’m very picky about the movies I see. In my eyes, I already have a television at home. Why should ...
Roseanne Barr…Oy
You know that famous Seinfeld where Jerry thinks his dentist, Dr. Watley, converted to Judaism for the jokes? A priest ...
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi’s “A Heart Afire”
As one of the founders of the Jewish Renewal movement, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi has labored his whole life to make ...