Jewish Perspective
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 »
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 »
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 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 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 »
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 »
Jew in the City wonders…do God and science have chemistry?
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
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?
Pin It Two weeks ago I received a number of frantic phone calls and messages. Â A well-trafficked Jewish blog published a story that was factually untrue. Â The ignorance and hatred... Read More »
Reading, ‘Riting, and ‘Rithmetic in Retrospect, Part III: Bad Timing
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
Pin It An Analysis of the Clashes Between Judaic and Secular Studies in the Jewish Day School Read More »
“Acts” of Charity
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
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
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
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?
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
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. Â The people left behind... 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 »
