Posted on 08/17/2017 by Carol Silver Elliott in Beliefs and Practices

My father was born in Poland, born at a time when anti-Semitism was not just prevalent, it was a fact of life. Yet while Dad...

Posted on 08/14/2017 by Moshe Daniel Levine in Beliefs and Practices

One of the reasons why I love the Jewish blogging world so much is that at any given time there is a whole array of topics...

Posted on 08/14/2017 by Moshe Daniel Levine in Beliefs and Practices

It is easy to tell what a society is deeply worried about by the entertainment it produces. In this case, it is clear that...

Posted on 07/27/2017 by Rabbi Ben Hecht in Holidays

During these Three Weeks which we are presently experiencing on the Jewish calendar, we are not just marking the historical...

Posted on 07/23/2017 by Moshe Daniel Levine in Beliefs and Practices

Believe me, I completely understand why a Jewish community would want to do away with the ethnocentric notion of Jewish...

Posted on 07/21/2017 by Rivkah Lambert Adler in Beliefs and Practices

Every night, in my dreams, I walk around like an ordinary person. Then I awaken and I struggle to get up off the makeshift...