Practices
What’s wrong with this headline?
Today’s Jerusalem Post had an article that began as follows: Woman rabbi flies to US to preach aliya It’s not ...
This is not kosher, Shlomo!
A passing reference to last year’s Morgan Freeman movie 10 Items or Less reminded me of a hilarious short film ...
Are you Jewish?
So while sitting at the offices of MyJewishLearning, we heard a knock on the door. Low and behold it was ...
Independent Minyan Study
Much has been written about the independent minyan movement (including several articles in the last issue of Zeek). But is ...
Batteries not included
This week Gizmodo included the Say-a-blessing key chain among its featured products. The device has eight buttons with icons representing ...
Clothing Store Apologizes to Israel
In its “Recommended Reading” section the Forward has noted The Independent‘s report that the Spanish clothing store Zara recently apologized ...
Taking on the Chief Rabbinate
Props to JTA for pointing out Rabbi Marc Angel’s scathing critique of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate in the Jerusalem Post. ...
Old-Time Religion
Not sure how I missed this, but thanks to Mark Berch for pointing out this story about Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz ...
Anti-Semitic Liturgy
In light of Eli Stern’s op-ed about interfaith dialogue that I blogged about yesterday, this news story about Orthodox Christians ...
Kvetching About Minyan
A lot has been written about the independent minyan movement, but most of that writing isn’t so funny. Not that ...