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24 September 2008
The Jewneric Leadership Series: Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
Jewneric recently had the opportunity to speak with Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, who currently dedicates his time and energies to The International Fellowship for Christians and Jews (IFCJ) – Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Partnership for Children in the Former Soviet Union, committed to ensuring the well-being of tens of thousands of Jewish children in that [...]
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30 June 2008
Real Estate, Real Problem
I grew up in a pretty insular community. I went to a Jewish school, had carpools to take me to and from wherever I was going, and almost never used public transportation until I was in college. It’s not that I didn’t like non-Jews or had anything against them - they seemed alright when I [...]
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7 April 2008
Statistically Speaking…
Today I met a fascinating man. Well, that’s deceptive. He’s rather nondescript. His job sounds, and probably is, rather boring. He works with numbers, though not financially. He analyzes data, though nothing classified or secret.
He is Yeshiva University’s in-house statistician.
His job is to analyze data in using advanced statistical tools (I’ve been in a [...]
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22 February 2008
God Bless Atheists, or, How to Find Faith in Colorful Moving Pictures
Many television shows seem to have a heavy religious component. Nowhere is this more evident than in the recent slew of science fiction that has invaded the airwaves over the past few years. If you pull reality television and unscripted television off the list (translate: game shows with bugs and game shows with bald men, [...]
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13 February 2008
What a Wonderful World It Could Be, or, My Way or the Highway
For several years, I have been involved in a radio show, going back to my days as YU radio station manager, called Dead Air. We discuss politics, religion, satire, movies, current events, and whatever else strikes our fancy. Despite our advancing age, the members of the Dead Air crew have consistently discussed and often predicted [...]
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5 February 2008
Keep Monopoly From Being Monopolized! …Or Something…
My own delightful alliteration notwithstanding, there seems to be a bit of democracy being introduced to the Monopoly process. Parker Brothers has announced that there will be a new, internationally themed version of Monopoly. Happily, instead of restricting the streets and businesses to American playboy towns (as the original Atlantic City) or other, cheesier renditions [...]
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12 November 2007
Salami Sonar or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Schnitzel
I know we seem to have had a bit of a lull here at Jewneric, but it’s sometimes hard to remember to post when life comes at all of us so fast. That’s why I love to attend the Kosher Fest convention at the Javits Center in New York, normally held in the second week [...]
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26 September 2007
Fear and Loathing in Passaic, NJ
Rachel Krich’s recent post regarding swastikas and other Nazi paraphernalia showing up in upper class Manhattan neighborhoods inspired me to pay more attention to the kind of event that usually leads me to merely shake my head and keep my thoughts to myself. But this year, the emergence of National Socialist enthusiasts has touched far [...]
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17 September 2007
Mikvah Tactics for the Nervous Bather
I have noticed in the last few years that more and more people seem to be going to the mikvah on the days before Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. While this is a longstanding tradition, densely populated areas sometimes lack the mikvah space to accommodate their High Holiday traffic. And while we certainly wouldn’t want [...]
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6 September 2007
The Many Sounds of the Shofar
As I was standing in shul one Elul morning, I heard the powerful sounds of a shofar blown with considerable demonstration of skill and not a little flair. Next to me, a young boy asked his father, “Why did that man blow the shofar so long?” His father replied, “He’s showing off.”
This disturbed me greatly, [...]