Mark Berch
Since 2002, Mark Berch has been providing Jewishly oriented web links to members of his shul (Tifereth Israel, a small Conservative synagogue in Washington DC where his family has been members for almost 40 years). In real life, he is a Patent Examiner.
Articles by Mark Berch
Organizations & Community
A look at PresenTense, “a Jerusalem-based hub for a social entrepreneurship training institute, a magazine on Jewish and Israeli culture, ...
The Jewish Body
A controversy erupts over whether an Orthodox woman, who covers her hair with a wig for religious reasons, should be ...
Prisoner Swap With Hezbollah
In Lebanon, Hezbollah uses the swap to argue that the war had a positive outcome. (Haaretz)Uzi Benziman argues that a ...
Writers & Books
Some recent novels feature rebellion among the Orthodox, and the pernicious effects of endemic gossip in their communities. (Jbooks)A look ...
Art & The Holocaust
Can abstraction, and Abstract art, deal properly with the enormity of the Shoah? (Jewish Exponent) A Haredi woman, born to ...
Jews Around the World
Cuba’s Jewish community has rebounded from its low, thanks in part to several dozen converts of Cubans with Jewish roots, ...
Activism & Gender Issues in Israel
Three Jerusalem women from Orthodox, Conservative and Reform streams of Judaism in Israel have launched the transdenominational “Kehillat Tzedek, a ...
Going Green: The Israeli Way
The Israel Electric Company is hoping to encourage consumers to install solar panels on rooftops by offering to buy excess ...
Israel Update
Eli Gonen says, Israel has not maximized its tourism potential, in large part because of only fitful attention from the ...
The San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum
The new Contemporary Jewish Museum, seeks to present “a contemporary perspective on Jewish art, culture and historyâ€?, without functioning as ...