History
Why Didn’t the Chicken Get to Cross the Road?
It’s that time of year again. That time when I can’t decide whether to stand with my holy-but-barbaric brothers and ...
A Mitzvah that goes beyond borders
Our good friends at the Jewish Publication Society have recently published a fantastic new book. Since WWII, Jewish armed servicemen/women ...
Pondering Historical Questions
Rabbi David Ellenson gives a broad historical overview on “How Modernity Changed Judaism�. (Institute for Global Jewish Affairs) A memoir ...
Joe Six Pack and the Jews
Unless your internet is down and you don’t have cable (a quick shout out to my brother), you know that ...
An Issue with Lubavitch
The new issue of the Jewish college student magazine New Voices just released its new issue, focusing on the world ...
Rosenberg rehash
With the recent news about Julius and Ethel Rosenberg that one of them of them was innocent — and that, ...
Help me Natalie Portman. You’re my only hope.
I’m not sure of many things. But one thing I am sure of is that Natalie Portman and I are ...
The Great Schlep
My parents aren’t grandparents yet. And this would be a really awkward way to tell them I’m pregnant, which I’m ...
Rosh Hashanah cooking done right
As my dad would say: If you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen. Well, Melbourne-based chef Malki ...
Denominationalism
Leaders of the UK’s three non-Orthodox religious movements (Reform, Liberal, and Masorti), which together account for about one-third of Britain’s ...