holidays
Just Say No to Bamba
I rarely agree with the Haredim, but recently they have instituted a boycott against Bamba and other Israeli snacks: The ...
What’s Today’s Date?
So yesterday, I decided to be all festive and celebrate Israel. Struggling to figure out what I wanted for lunch, ...
A Hero In Heaven
Today is Yom Hazikaron, Israeli’s Memorial Day. I’d like to take the opportunity to tell our readers about the life ...
Israel’s Memorial & Independence Days
-The last surviving person to have attended the historical afternoon session when Ben Gurion read the scroll establishing the Jewish ...
Speedy Delivery
As some of you might have noticed from earlier blog posts, the synagogue I now attend is a bit old-fashioned. ...
Yad Vashem on YouTube
It seems like everyone is taking advantage of new outlets online. Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial museum of Israel, has ...
Books about the Shoah
-The distinction between the Holocaust’s meanings and its facts “highlights a central issue in the broader debate about what it ...
Holocaust Collections and Connections
-A project sets its goal to collect 1.5 million crayons to commemorate the 1.5 million children who perished in the ...
No Room for Karpas
What does a progressive seder plate look like?A little bit like a fruit salad, according to frequent MJL contributor Jill ...
Is Passover too long?
While I love the ideas and rituals of Passover, I admit, I’m a little disappointed: Is it really only Day ...