Jewish Perspective

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 »

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 »

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 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 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 »

Jewish Relativity

Jewish Relativity

January 3, 2012 3 Comments »

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 »

Jew in the City wonders…do God and science have chemistry?

Jew in the City wonders…do God and science have chemistry?

November 15, 2011 No Comments »

Pin It “I couldn’t help but wonder…” Sound familiar? It may be Carrie’s popular phrase of wonderment on Sex and the City, but way before the popular series hit HBO,... Read More »

Free Gilad, Finally

Free Gilad, Finally

October 12, 2011 No Comments »

Pin It For 1935 days, Noam and Aviva Shalit have lived in a state of uncertainty, fighting for their son who languished in Hamas captivity. For 1935 days, the government... Read More »

Is Blogging Good for the Jews?

Is Blogging Good for the Jews?

October 5, 2011 2 Comments »

Pin It Two weeks ago I received a number of frantic phone calls and messages.  A well-trafficked Jewish blog published a story that was factually untrue.  The ignorance and hatred... Read More »

Reading, ‘Riting, and ‘Rithmetic in Retrospect, Part III: Bad Timing

February 17, 2010 No Comments »

This week, let’s attack something a little more mundane: scheduling of the school day Read More »

Reading, ‘Riting, and ‘Rithmetic in Retrospect, Part II: No Literature Created Equal

February 8, 2010 No Comments »

Pin It An Analysis of the Clashes Between Judaic and Secular Studies in the Jewish Day School Read More »

“Acts” of Charity

January 25, 2010 No Comments »

Pin It At a small shul in an affluent neighborhood in Chicago there is a battered silver tzidakah box that sits in the main sanctuary Read More »

Reading, ‘Riting, and ‘Rithmetic in Retrospect, Part I: Introduction

December 20, 2009 No Comments »

Pin It An Analysis of the Clashes Between Judaic and Secular Studies in the Jewish Day School Read More »

The Symbolism of a Diamond Dreidel

December 8, 2009 No Comments »

Pin It Last Monday, Mervis Diamond Importers unveiled the world first ever Diamond Dreidel. When I saw this piece of Judaica, I first thought about what a Dreidel meant to... Read More »

Washington Jewish Federation Closes Its Doors on Fridays

August 17, 2009 No Comments »

Pin It In what must have been a very difficult yet ultimately responsible decision, the Greater Washington Jewish Federation has announced that it will be officially closing its offices each... Read More »

Who Hates Who?

January 22, 2009 1 Comment »

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 »

An Olah Without a Parachute XII

January 19, 2009 No Comments »

Pin It There is a war going on in our country. Fathers, brothers, sons, cousins and friends are leaving their families to go fight this war.  The people left behind... Read More »

Bad Karma?

January 14, 2009 6 Comments »

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 »

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