2013
What Does a Kabbalist Eat for Breakfast?
Once upon a time, a person could easily make reference to a rabbi, maybe a rav, and maybe even a ...
Simchat Torah Firsts
This past Simchat Torah I had the fortune of dividing my time between two minyanim: the Mount Sinai Jewish Center in Washington ...
The Jewish Banjo
In this season of Thanksgivukkah, I’ve started to think a lot about cultural syncretism. I’ve come to the conclusion that, ...
Who Will My Daughter Be?
On October 1 (and about four and half weeks early), my wife and I welcomed our daughter into the world. ...
Shomrei Adamah: Guardians of the Land
We are told very early on in our Jewish history of the importance of ruling over our lands responsibly, of ...
Sweet Judgment
When I was a kid, every morning I’d watch my father shave from my perch on the rim of the ...
Ghosts, Spirits, and Jewish wanderings in the Afterlife
My colleagues Joshua Ratner and Alana Suskin have offered their perspectives on kids trick or treating, and generally engaging (or ...
Kathryn Wiener, A Woman of Vision
“All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” — Victor HugoThis ...
Good Reasons to Institute Civil Marriage in Israel? We’ve Got Thousands.
Avishalom Westreich and Pinhas Shifman, religious Israeli legal scholars of marriage and divorce law who presented compelling proposals at JOFA’s Agunah ...
A Halloween With Jewish Values?
Lately it seems like Halloween has becomes a Rorschach test for how Jews feel about assimilation. As expressed in this eloquent blog ...