Life
Praying (and Crying) with Lior
Way back in 2007 when I was at LimmudNY I saw a short version of the documentary Praying With Lior, ...
Bar Mitzvah Dance Class
I don’t know if I was the most awkward thirteen year old ever. I definitely wasn’t the coolest but, hey, ...
Get ‘Em While They’re…Hot?
With 2010 coming to an end, it’s time to go out and buy some new calendars for your fridge door. ...
Celebrities on JDate
I manage my best friend’s JDate profile, which means that when he recently got a message from a 51 year ...
A Modest Proposal: Avoid Travel
Yesterday morning I was at airport at five in the morning. After a grueling security line, I was instructed to ...
A Sad Blog
At first I was skeptical. No one wants to read an entire blog just about people who have died, right? ...
Women Writing Torahs
Filmmaker Sasha Perry recently traveled to Seattle to document a historic event: the completion of the first Torah scroll written ...
Wise Fridays: Just Four Paragraphs a Day
“If a man learns two paragraphs of the law in the morning and two in the evening and is engaged ...
Can Cheese Be Jewish?
“Goats are the Jews of the animal kingdom,” Aitan Mizrahi told a group at the Hazon Food Conference on Friday ...
Wise Fridays: Guideline for Disputes
“Two camels meet on the steep ascent to Beit-Horon; if they both ascend simultaneously both will tumble down into the ...