Practices

Jews for Jesus: Interview w/Shmuel Herzfeld

Last week, NPR’s “Heard on the Street” featured a “debate” between Jew for Jesus Larry Dubin and Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld ...

Which came first?

After my post yesterday, we were talking in the office about the different intentions behind the rules of kashrut.What eventually ...

Positive change for USCJ?

Even the Conservative Movement has jumped on to the eco-friendly bandwagon. This week, The Washington Post highlighted the new seal ...

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. ...