History
Chrismukkah Cookbook A Waste of Cash
I was out with a friend on Sunday and came across the Chrismukkah Cookbook. Written by Ron Gompertz the cookbook ...
At Least They Weren’t Pulled In to Make a Minyan
On New Year’s Eve, while you were busy not remembering your evening, two men dressed as Hasidic Jews robbed Dialite ...
Newsbite Volley: Right Now in Gaza
It’s the 13th day of the war, and things are showing no signs of letting up or chilling out. And ...
King David: Coming to Primetime
Now you can do some of your Jewish learning in the evenings while you watch the tube. NBC will begin ...
Chinese Takeout in the New Yorker
Last week the New Yorker published a longish piece (registration required) about Orthodox rabbis who criss-cross China certifying that various ...
Holocaust in the News
A potential convert finds himself “never able to connect emotionally with the Nazi genocide as so many of my fellow ...
Faster, Faster: Asara B’Tevet
Today is the tenth day of the Hebrew month of Tevet, and as such is a minor fast day. You ...
Taqwacore wisdom
All weekend I’ve continued my obsession with Michael Muhammad Knight’s book The Taqwacores, which follows a bunch of young Muslim ...
Kaddish: It’s Different for a Girl
I haven’t written much about actually saying Kaddish in the past few months, partially because it has become so much ...
Matisyahu: Return of the “King”
Although I can’t actually remember whether he played “King Without a Crown,” that iconoclastic first single that a friend swore ...