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
Israeli Demographics
–The total fertility rate in the country’s ultra-Orthodox community has dropped sharply in the past several years, e.g. in the ...
Photography in Focus
-In “Israel Through My Lens�, David Rubinger “gives a spirited account of his six-decade, seven-war career as Time-Life’s photographer in ...
Civilized Discourse
-Rabbi Avi Shafran takes a dour view of blogs: responsible blogs, in the Jewish realm are “decidedly in the minority. ...
Psychedelics, Informants, & More…
-Joseph Epstein provides a comprehensive and generally favorable review of the PBS documentary “The Jewish Americans.� (National Endowment for the ...
The non-Orthodox in Israel
-A conference in Israel looks at the Reform Movement’s failure to make significant inroads in Israeli society. (The Jerusalem Post)-Rabbi ...
The Feminist Moment of Truth (& More)
-With Ms. Magazine rejecting an ad celebrating three Israeli women leaders, Phyllis Chesler accuses “This is a feminism that has ...
West Bank Outposts
–An overview of the unauthorized settlement outposts in the West Bank finds there to be over 100 at present. Ariel ...
The Rule of Law in Israel
-In a number of cities “intransigent registrars and rabbis” are refusing to recognize state-sanctioned conversions to Judaism, and it is ...
Antisemitism and Antizionism
-April Rosenblum, a 27-year-old progressive activist, has put out a remarkable pamphlet “Making Resistance to Antisemitism Part of All of ...
Jewish Ethics
-A look at a new national curriculum called Ethical Start, which is reframing the way JCC educators teach values to ...