Meredith Kesner Lewis
Meredith Lewis is the Director of Operations at MyJewishLearning.com. Meredith holds an MA in Hebrew and Judaic studies and an MPA in non-profit finance from New York University. She also received a BS in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Meredith has served as an advisor for United Synagogue Youth in the Westchester and Rockland Counties area as well as an education consultant.
Articles by Meredith Kesner Lewis
Can Secularism Save Judaism
In response to PBS’s new series chronicling Jewish Americans, Jonathan Sarna has an essay on “On Faith” that examines the reemergence ...
Florida Panthers Go Kosher
In keeping with our recent story about sporting trends and Judaism, Ynet is reporting that kosher food is now available ...
Can we all at least pray together?
The ongoing Writers Guild of America strike depresses more and more each day. I support the writers, but I miss ...
Have you read our article on keeping kosher?
A few weekends ago, I came across an old issue of Time magazine from 2006 devoted to stem cell research. ...
Football Player Goes Frum
The theme of today’s blog is apparently Jews and Texas. This video follows the journey of Alan Veingrad, a former ...
Transitions
Last week, I blogged about the closing of the Ziv Tzedakah Fund. Today I received this letter from their Israel ...
Ziv Tzedakah Fund to Close
For more than 25 years, Danny Siegel, aka the Mitzvah Man, has been distributing money to little-known tzedakah projects primarily ...
Ibi Lobove Youbou
This past weekend, I spent time with a dear friend from college. He’s always full of interesting, if not bizarre ...
Sell the Matzah, Keep the Hametz
Still looking for a holiday gift? Got $25 million just laying around? The Streit’s Matzo factory, prime real estate located ...
Happy Holidays
We’ve learned through both our user survey and anecdotally that many of our readers are not Jewish. To those readers ...