Mixed Multitudes
Babies on their Backs
Okay, I’ll admit it. I’ve been frequenting other websites. And even participating in discussions on other boards (Gasp!).As a Jewish ...
Revolution shmevolution
The editor of Jewcy, Tahl Raz, wrote on Daily Shvitz last week that he is:in the process of writing a ...
French (Jewish) Cardinal, Dies at 80
If you haven’t yet, you must read the fascinating obituary of the French Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger. Lustiger was a close ...
Jewish-American-Iranian Lit
Dalia Sofer’s novel The September of Shiraz received a rapturous review in yesterday’s New York Times Book Review. “The Septembers ...
Rabbis and the Dating Scene
This week Jordie Gerson, a rabbinical student at HUC in New York, published a witty piece about the difficulties of ...
Art Green in Utah
During the second day of the “Why Be Jewish?” conference, Art Green taught several passages from the Sefat Emet and ...
The Idiots Guide To…
I love Amazon. One can buy just about anything and everything. I personally use it for dog bones, Muppet DVDs, ...
Conference Asks: Why Be Jewish?
Last night, I returned from a few days in Park City, Utah where I was attending a conference sponsored by ...
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 ...
Defining Charity
While Palestinians continue to battle each other for control of Gaza, another battle involving Hamas is taking place on American ...
Jews in Sports
-In its early decades, Jews were an important part of basketball. For example, half of the 1946-47 New York Knickerbockers ...