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
Pondering Historical Questions
Rabbi David Ellenson gives a broad historical overview on “How Modernity Changed Judaism�. (Institute for Global Jewish Affairs) A memoir ...
Rosh Hashanah In The News
Every year, thousands of men abandon their families on the High Holidays to prostrate the grave of Rebbe Nachman of ...
Denominationalism
Leaders of the UK’s three non-Orthodox religious movements (Reform, Liberal, and Masorti), which together account for about one-third of Britain’s ...
Trouble in (Academic) Paradise
Israeli Arabs will distribute 20,000 booklets on the Nakba, the Palestinian version of 1948 events outside of schools in Arab ...
Education in Israel
Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the founder of the Revisionist movement in Zionism, has been excluded from the list of 100 personages studied ...
Anti-Semitism
Dr. Gabriel Barkay, professor at Bar-Ilan University, talks about the dangerous new idea of Temple denial, not only in Arab ...
Israeli Defense Forces
The complex set of lessons imparted at the IDF’s Officer Training School near Mitzpe Ramon. (Jerusalem Post)Only 52% of Israeli ...
Funding Haredi Education
The Knesset has passed a law saying that Haredi high schools can legally get funding without teaching the core curriculum, ...
Israel’s Parties
Yoel Marcus asks of Benjamin Netanyahu, “What is the secret of this man, who flubbed up as prime minister, who ...
Coming to Israel
The Jewish Agency releases a new plan for attracting 1,000 American high-tech professionals to Israel by 2010, but “Just 30 ...