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“We All Believe in Strange Things”

“We All Believe in Strange Things”

July 2, 2012 2 Comments »

Pin It Mitt Romney’s Mormonism has reared its head every once in a while throughout this election season. Recently, more and more people seem to be asking about the Republican... Read More »

“Enfold Me”: A Review

“Enfold Me”: A Review

June 25, 2012 No Comments »

Pin It When I was six years old, my blasted older brother told me the story of Dracula and introduced me into a new emotion, sheer terror. I recall that... Read More »

How To Misrepresent the Jewish Woman’s Experience: A Blog Rebuttal

How To Misrepresent the Jewish Woman’s Experience: A Blog Rebuttal

May 24, 2012 No Comments »

Pin It A recent article was published on XOJane by a Chassidic woman named Chaya about the experience of being an Orthodox woman. She was trying to stem the tide of media... Read More »

#ASIFA Recap + Funniest Tweets

#ASIFA Recap + Funniest Tweets

May 21, 2012 3 Comments »

Pin It Needless to say, the organizers of the ASIFA at Citi Field yesterday are no fans of blogs, even ones with Jewish insights, lest they corrupt the mind they... Read More »

Walking Jerusalem’s History

Walking Jerusalem’s History

May 17, 2012 No Comments »

Pin It Living in Israel is a special gift for many reasons. The beauty, the flora, the fauna, the people, but most of all, the history. You feel it with... Read More »

Jews Who Tweet: Meet @raffeg

Jews Who Tweet: Meet @raffeg

May 10, 2012 No Comments »

Pin It Why did you initially join Twitter? I originally joined Twitter just because I thought that I had to be on every social network imaginable. Years of bullying and... Read More »

Is Our Problem The Technology Or The Users?

Is Our Problem The Technology Or The Users?

May 7, 2012 No Comments »

Pin It A good player doesn’t blame his equipment when he drops the ball.  He knows that rain or shine, it’s up to him to make the play. Is technology... Read More »

Making a Difference on Yom Ha’atzmaut

Making a Difference on Yom Ha’atzmaut

April 20, 2012 1 Comment »

Pin It In Israel, you get used to seeing IDF soldiers everywhere: walking the streets, on patrols, at the Machsom (road checkpoint). They are always on duty, ready to help.... Read More »

The Gilboa Iris Blooms for Readers

The Gilboa Iris Blooms for Readers

April 18, 2012 No Comments »

Pin It I first met Zahava D. Englard in the bank. My sister-in-law, Miriam, introduced her as “This is Zahava, she just got her first book published.”  I was immediately interested.  After... Read More »

Ex-Hasids on The Small Screen

Ex-Hasids on The Small Screen

April 11, 2012 No Comments »

Pin It Law school has had many adverse side effects on me, and the worst one would be my addiction to Diet Pepsi and trashy reality TV show. Gone are... Read More »

A Call To Jewish Artists

A Call To Jewish Artists

March 29, 2012 No Comments »

Pin It Although finals have consumed me ravenously and I had a massive stomach ache, I dragged myself to see Sailor Moon the Movie at the Webster theatre. I was... Read More »

A.B. Yehoshua: American Jews Are Only Partial Jews

A.B. Yehoshua: American Jews Are Only Partial Jews

March 26, 2012 1 Comment »

Pin It A.B. Yehoshua is not a stupid man, despite recent evidence to the contrary. The famous Israeli author and Israel Prize laureate remarked at a lecture last week that... Read More »

A Plea to the Shidduch System

A Plea to the Shidduch System

March 23, 2012 No Comments »

Pin It Everyone is hating on this article from the Jewish Press, and I absolutely agree with 99% of all the negative comments I’m reading from my friends. I feel,... Read More »

A Response To Yitta Halberstam, Good Looking Jews And Jewish Mothers

A Response To Yitta Halberstam, Good Looking Jews And Jewish Mothers

March 22, 2012 3 Comments »

Pin It Please keep a respectful and constructive tone in commenting and cross-posting. We all come from different backgrounds and we are not here to judge religious affiliations. Thank you!... Read More »

The Pale God: An Inadequate Idea For Liberal Democracy

The Pale God: An Inadequate Idea For Liberal Democracy

March 19, 2012 No Comments »

Pin It Aryeh Tepper reviews The Pale God: Israeli Secularism and Spinoza’s Philosophy of Culture for Jewish Ideas Daily. Katz argues (as Tepper paraphrases) that secular Israeli Jewry has come... Read More »

Questions for the Jewish Future

Questions for the Jewish Future

March 11, 2012 No Comments »

Pin It Though reports of the demise of America are greatly exaggerated the world is still at a crossroads. We are living in the age of democratization of the nuclear... Read More »

A Republican Jew on Progressive Jews, Israel, and the American Jewish Community

A Republican Jew on Progressive Jews, Israel, and the American Jewish Community

March 4, 2012 No Comments »

Pin It As a Republican Jew I often find myself in the minority. As someone who is deeply involved in Jewish life this happens quite often. Yet when it comes... Read More »

Tasting KFWE’s Gourmet Offerings

Tasting KFWE’s Gourmet Offerings

February 20, 2012 1 Comment »

Pin It For the second year in a row, I attended the Kosher Food and Wine Expo. Last year the food was, if I remember correctly, delicious … but I... Read More »

The Small Voice Of Moderation in Bet Shemesh

The Small Voice Of Moderation in Bet Shemesh

January 9, 2012 No Comments »

Pin It In The Year Of The Protester, we used the hashtag and we mimed the slogan to great effect.  But real change takes more than a slogan.  It takes dialog.  It... Read More »

Jewish Relativity, Revisited

Jewish Relativity, Revisited

January 4, 2012 No Comments »

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 »

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