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
Diaspora-Israel Relations
Jeffrey Goldberg reports that one source of tension between Ehud Olmert and some Jewish leaders is that the latter “loathe ...
Immigrants, Lamed Vavniks, and Charedi Mocking
Why do so many Anglo immigrants end up in ethnic enclaves? The longer North American immigrants deliberate about moving to ...
Body and Dress
Judy Oppenheimer says: Keep that big Jewish Nose! (Forward)World Health Organization estimates 35-40% of Israeli girls 11-16 suffer from an ...
LGBT Issues
Tomer Kamerling argues that gay pride parades no longer do anything to advance rights of homosexuals in Israel and hence ...
Media Matters
Donna Rosenthal gives some examples of the astonishing ignorance of many media figures about Israel. (The Forward) The French Court ...
Observing Shabbat
A new water tower will allow the Israeli, haredi town of Modi’in Illit to have “completely shomer Shabbos waterâ€?; inhabitants ...
Lag B’Omer
Reform Rabbi Levi Weiman-Kelman says of Israel’s Lag Ba’omer bonfires: “This is an ecological disaster, it’s virtually rabbi-sanctioned vandalism. Nowadays ...
Negotiating Peace
Reviewing the efforts of Carter, Jerome M. Segal argues that while “Hamas has indeed said it will never recognize Israel, ...
Conversion Controversy
-The High Rabbinical Court of Israel has ruled that all of the thousands of conversions conducted since 1999 by Rabbi ...
Israel’s Memorial & Independence Days
-The last surviving person to have attended the historical afternoon session when Ben Gurion read the scroll establishing the Jewish ...