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
Berch is Back
-There may be as much as 4 billion dollars worth of natural gas offshore of Gaza. Why has it not ...
The Gaza Bus Tour and other stories
-On a tour bus, journalists are subjected to the Hamas spin operation, but it’s a pretty rigid operation. (The Globe ...
Jews in Sports
-In its early decades, Jews were an important part of basketball. For example, half of the 1946-47 New York Knickerbockers ...
Money Matters
Is it OK to be “buying out someone else’s mitzvahâ€? so you can do it yourself? (The Jerusalem Post) The ...
Where Things Stand
Reservists who fought in the Lebanon war, now a year later, give a more nuanced view of their experiences. Includes ...
iJerusalem
Here’s a great resource for your next trip to Israel: the city of Jerusalem has prepared a series of tours ...
An End to Shabbos Shopping?
A poll shows that in Israel, 27 percent of the Jewish population observes the Shabbat according to Halacha, while 20% ...
Religion in Israel
A look at the extensive splits within the religious establishment in Israel, and their increasing inability to deal with challenges ...
Shul News
The Shabazi shul in LA has “no sign and no front door.…The Shema prayer … is … not a melody. ...
Syria and the North
Pointing out that “The Golan … has been Israeli for 40 years, double the time it was in Syria’s hands..… ...