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
The Media on the Media
-Although Israeli-Arabs make up 19% of the population, their representation in the media stands at only 1%. For example in ...
Jewish Beliefs & Practices
-Ron Wolfson says that you should make “God’s To-Do Listâ€? your To-Do list. Literally: “Compile. Keep track. Make lists. Itemize… ...
Jewish Leadership & Philanthropy
-Ariel Beery and Aharon Horwitz, the co-founders of the PresenTense Institute for Creative Zionism, say that Jews need to “replace ...
Jew vs. Jew in the Name of Religion
-When a custodial parent and a 13-year have sharply different religious views, whose view should prevail? (Forward)-The rapidly growing ultraorthodox ...
Turkey and the Jews
-In Turkey, a wildly successful book explains that Turkey’s devoutly Muslim prime minister and his ruling pro-Islamic party are “actually ...
The Hebrew Language
-When and why did the “v” become “b,” so that the Hebrew, “Ivrit,” became the English “Hebrew”? (Haaretz) -Why have ...
Annapolis Peace Conference
-Sarah Honig scores the idea of making generous offers to “perfidious Abbas� and labels the notion that “his current powerlessness ...
The Bible
-The scriptures of Jews, Christians and Moslems each proclaim their own to be the Chosen Ones. In an age when ...
Survivors, Scholars, & Holocaust Fatigue
-A Muslim mother visits Dachau. (Jewish Journal)-A new study asserts that Holocaust trauma affects grandchildren of survivors. (Haaretz)-An Israeli teen ...
Military Matters
-Reuven Pedatzur concludes that a war with Syria would include a missile attack on Israeli cities throughout Israel that the ...