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Day Schools and the End of the Melting Pot

I met Peter Beinart in 1999 when he was writing an article for The Atlantic on Jewish community day schools. ...

Not My Concern…

President Obama’s comments on gay marriage provoked much comment and consternation.  In the Jewish world, while one national Democratic leader ...

Tisha B’Av and the Olympic Games

What happens when the saddest day on the Jewish calendar, the Ninth of Av, which memorializes the destruction of King ...

A Nice Jewish Girl on the Balance Beam

When you tell someone that you used to do gymnastics, she frequently answers that she, too, did it. When she ...

Seeking Fact, Finding the Unknowable

Debra Spark is the author of The Pretty Girl, a collection of stories about art and deception.In literature, as in ...

Bageling

Have you ever been ‘bageled’?“Bageling” is: the conscious act – or speech – of a non-obviously looking Jewish individual to ...

The Lost Afikoman

Moshe Kasher is a stand-up comedian and the author of Kasher In The Rye: The True Tale Of A White Boy ...

Moshe Kasher Responds to Critics

To whoever is reading–I’ve had some complaints regarding my recent appearance on Conan, promoting my new book, Kasher In The Rye: ...

Finding My Religion

I went to a Modern Orthodox elementary school. For eight years I learned Hebrew (Modern and biblical), participated in Shabbat onegs ...

My Big Black Hat Family Wedding

In the past six months, I have attended three “black hat” weddings for my two grandnieces and one grandnephew. My ...