Posts Tagged: judaism
Mortgage Meltdown has Made Every House a Sukkah
Ever since I led protests two years ago to stop Muammar Gaddafi from taking up residence next-door to me in Englewood, New Jersey, at the...
Syrian Jews Celebrate History and Heritage at Lincoln Center Screening
3000 members of the Syrian Jewish community and their friends gathered in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center October 9 to view a cinematic history...
Yom Kippur a No Go for Young Golfer Laetitia Beck
19 year old amateur golfer Laetitia Beck, a sophomore at Duke University in Durham NC announced that she would be declining a request to join...
Young American Jews Have Been Hijacked
The next generation of American Judaism has been hijacked. More specifically, the notion of what it means to be a good young Jewish adult in the...
Why Do We Act the Way We Do?
Philosophers are divided over the ethical question of why humans behave the way they do. There are and have been different theories, "labels" such as...
Advocacy For the Young Is the Best Advocacy For Seniors
The Bible tells us that just before he died, Jacob blessed his two grandsons, and he prophesied that Ephraim and Manasseh would become role models...
The Butchering of 8-Year-Old Leibby Kletsky
There are three reasons Hassidic Jews live together in tight-knit and often insular communities. The first is shared values. The second, a strong support network...
In the Belly of the British Tabloid Beast
I came to the UK for a debate on the future of the Anglo-Jewish Chief Rabbinate but quickly got mired in commenting on the News of...
On a Wing and a Prayer
A palpable pride rose through the congregation as its young rabbi placed his flowing Tallit over the shoulders of his formal blue Air Force uniform. ...
Circumcision, liberalism and Judaism
As news filtered over the Atlantic of the impending referendum in San Francisco, my initial reaction was one of angry bewilderment. Who, of all the...
Bin Laden’s Burial and other Religious Frauds
The bizarre burial of Osama bin Laden at sea - an action necessitated by our government's need to accommodate Islamic law requiring that a Muslim...
Divided Matzah, Divided People: The Secret of the Afikoman
Afikoman For children, it is the highlight of the seder. Over the years they discovered that because the seder could not be concluded until this...
An Open Letter to Dr. Jerry Coyne – Atheistic Biologist
Dear Dr. Coyne, I've been contemplating the three attacks you launched against Rabbi Adam Jacobs and myself within a period of several weeks. They appeared on...
Don’t Celebrate Ignorance
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance. -- Saul Bellow Light travels faster than sound. That's why most people seem bright until...
