News & Current Events
“We All Believe in Strange Things”
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 »
