Torah
What Business Has One Born of Woman Among Us?
Pin It At the time of the giving of the Torah, the Talmud teaches (Shabbat 88b-89a), the heavenly angels appeared before God and asked, regarding Moses: “What business has one... Read More »
Two Kings Wearing One Crown
Pin It The relationship between religion and ethics is a perennial problem in philosophy of religion. In one sense, it seems redundant to say that a particular action is required... Read More »
Jewish Relativity, Revisited
Pin It Fellow Jewneric blogger, Joshua Einstein, writes about a common argument made by Jewish outreach organizations: “the secular world is morally relative and adrift†and only religion provides “moral... Read More »
Jewish Relativity
Pin It Religious leaders often posit that the secular world is morally relative and adrift. The changing and metastasizing values of the larger world are no doubt foreboding and challenging... Read More »
The Official Jewish Mother’s Day
Pin It After the back to back celebrations in the Jewish month of Tishrei, many Jews look forward to a break in the month of Cheshvan, which is the only... Read More »
Multi-Denominational Rabbis Weigh in on the Days of Awe
Pin It To prepare ourselves for introspection and new commitment on Yom Kippur, we want to acknowledge the diverse sentiment of our communities’ Rabbinic leadership. Jewneric has asked Rabbis of... Read More »
Reading, ‘Riting, and ‘Rithmetic in Retrospect, Part II: No Literature Created Equal
Pin It An Analysis of the Clashes Between Judaic and Secular Studies in the Jewish Day School Read More »
Reading, ‘Riting, and ‘Rithmetic in Retrospect, Part I: Introduction
Pin It An Analysis of the Clashes Between Judaic and Secular Studies in the Jewish Day School Read More »
Who Hates Who?
Pin It The following is a letter to the editor of an imaginary paper that would only be read by people who understand that I mean well, and who know... Read More »
Bad Karma?
Pin It Is it possible that even when you do the right thing it will bring you negative consequences? Imagine that your Aunt walks into the room, this is the... Read More »
Davening on airplanes
Pin It I haven’t posted in a while, perhaps because I haven’t felt particularly passionate about anything. Here’s something I am passionate about, having dealt with it recently on a... Read More »
Soapbox Hobo
Pin It You’ve probably seen him more often in TV, Movies and other visual media than you have on the street where he belongs. He’s the guy with the sign... Read More »
The Other Leather Bondage
Pin It I, once again, feel I may be going into territory not as family friendly as this site is intended. If your sensibilities are easily offended (or if you... Read More »
Wordle Shows Visual Representations of Any Text with Cool Biblical Implacations
Pin It Today, someone sent me the link to a new web 2.0 site, Wordle. Wordle gives you a tag cloud of any text you put in. Someone already mashed... Read More »
Don’t Eat a Peach or Raisins and Almonds because Carrot Juice is Murder
Pin It We are on the approach to the Pentecost, also known as Shavuot. On the holiday of Shavuot there is a well known custom not to eat any meat.... Read More »
Torah Judaism, Homosexuality, and Gay Marriage
Pin It The Torah does not like gays. For some Jews, this is not a difficult challenge to overcome. The Torah may have been inspired by God, but it was... Read More »
What Does G-d Taste Like?
Pin It Shauli, our youngest son, was about seven years old as he sat across the table from me, at our favorite pizza shop. He considered a slice of pizza... Read More »
Taking My Mind for a Walk
Pin It One day, Mayer, my chavruta wondered out loud about how a prophet could identify that a particular event he saw would happen in the future; after all, the... Read More »
The Trouble With Antisemitism
Pin It The Trouble with AntisemitismUploaded by Jewneric For more information on Rabbi Karsh please visit The Torah Learning Center Read More »
Dvar Torah Fodder for the Seders
Pin It Most people who read this website are probably also scurrying to clean their houses for Passover (leaven be gone!) and searching high and low for divrei torah for... Read More »
