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 Orthodox World
-Isi Leibler bemoans the fact that in the Israeli Orthodox world, “the voices of moderation are silent. Zealotry has become ...
Gaza and the West Bank
-The Palestinian Authority is paving a four-lane highway inside Israel’s sovereign territory. You’ve never heard of this? That, says Yossi ...
Why? Why? Why?
-Why is it that “young Israelis are fighting for the chance to work as pickers throughout the country’s kibbutzimâ€? even ...
Synagogues & Rabbis
-Buzzy Gordon and Barry Goldsmith select “a minyan of remarkable synagogues known for their beauty or their place in history,� ...
Coming to Israel
-Michael Freund decries the fact that Subbotnik Jews are allowed to make aliya under the Law of Return “only as ...
What Should Israel Do?
-The head of the national Religious party Benny Elon has proposed his solution: Israel would take sovereignty over the entire ...
Jews in Far-Flung Places
-Myanmar’s 20 remaining Jews fear for their small community. (Ynet)-The Jewish life in Taiwan, one dominated by Syrian Jews, is ...
Israeli Zeitgeist
-The 2007 “Corruption Perceptions Index” shows a modest improvement for Israel over 2006. (Haaretz) -The latest survey of Israeli attitudes ...
Gaza & Sderot
-Moshe Elad argues that cutting off Gaza electricity would give the Palestinians a propaganda bonanza: “every natural death of an ...
Sukkot in the News
-Doing Sukkot in Kauai. (Kauai Garden Island News)-A look at the work of The Sukkah Project, which sends pre-fab sukkas ...