Practices
Deconstructing Black Bar Mitzvahs
Apparently Paul Marx decided to answer my burning question from yesterday, “What is a black bar mitzvah?” With an op-ed ...
Jewish Apathy
From AJWS’s Aaron Dorfman…As thousands of Buddhist monks continue to take to the streets of Rangoon in protest over ongoing ...
More Jellies in Your Bellies
The Orthodox Union (OU) has just certified some additional flavors of Jelly Belly jelly beans as kosher: Berry Blue Buttered ...
The Dangerous Book for Boychiks
Guest blogger Rabbi Jennifer Krause is the author of The Answer: Making Sense of Life, One Question at a Time.By ...
An Original Hipster
Jennifer Bleyer, founding editor of Heeb Magazine, has an essay on the continued meaning that the Jewish Catalog has for her ...
No need for an eruv
My husband and I are just about to close on our first home next week. Looking for homes was a ...
Invite Only
The High Holidays can prove to be spiritually lacking, particularly for those of us who spend everyday surrounded by Judaism. ...
True Joy, Through Water
Canfei Nesharim, a terrific organization that works to inspire the Orthodox Jewish community to understand and act on the relationship ...
My Life.
I couldn’t pass up sharing this ad from the Jewish newspaper back in my hometown of Dallas.
Conservative Judaism’s Future
I still haven’t had time to fully digest an intriguing piece from the Forward today, but I figured I’d throw ...