Jewish Blogs

Judge Kimba Wood Responds to Imbalanced Simchas for Jewish Babies

In my second year of rabbinical school at the Jewish Theological Seminary, I took a year-long seminar that focused on Jewish life-cycle observances. Of course, we covered all the basics like the bris, the Jewish wedding and the Jewish funeral. But we spent more time discussing life-cycle events that traditionally had been given short shrift. In fact, we devoted a great ...

Judaism and Sports

Last week I received a call from the producer of “Mojo in the Morning,” a popular morning radio talk show on 95.5 FM here in Detroit. She asked if I’d be willing to offer a prayer for the Detroit Lions. Knowing how funny the show is, I wasn’t concerned that the prayer would be taken seriously. So, I agreed to ...

JTS Posts Warning in Beit Shemesh

Beit Shemesh, an Israeli neighborhood about 20 miles outside of Jerusalem, has been in the news quite a bit over the past year.After the opening of the Orot Banot national-religious girls’ school in Beit Shemesh in September 2011, groups of radical Haredim gathered in front of the school, calling the girls names and spitting at them when they headed to ...

JStandard’s Miryam Wahrman Covers Jewish Domestic Abuse and Child Abuse

A strong and self-confident social group polices and criticizes its own shortcomings. Teaneck’s JStandard science editor Dr. Miryam Wahrman writes about Jewish domestic abuse and child abuse. Those are sad realities in every ethnic and religious community. These two important articles will raise consciousness and save people from actual misery in the Jewish community.Confessions and warnings. Project S.A.R.A.H. addresses domestic ...

Jstandard: Review of Yitzhak Zahavy’s, “Archaeology, Stamps and Coins of the State of Israel”

The Jewish Standard has an excellent review of our son’s book.Author has ‘an informed passion for archeology’Book explores ancient artifacts on Israel’s stamps and currencyby Lloyd A. de VriesArcheology is important to the State of Israel, and that’s why ancient artifacts show up so often on Israeli stamps, coins, banknotes, and medals, particularly the early ones.Read More: @ tzvee.blogspot.comReaders found more ...

Jon Stewart Can Only Go Shofar

Last night, Jon Stewart decided to blow a shofar on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” to alert his viewers to some breaking news (Keith Olbermann leaving MSNBC). He called it a News Shofar and announced “Something happened!” but never actually blew the shofar. Instead he just put the shofar to his mouth and kept repeating the words “Hey Look” ...

Joining the Ranks of the Balabustas

Since I haven’t been chilling at the JEA Senior Lunch Bunch as of late, I’ve been needing an opportunity to get my fix of Savannah’s hilarious yentas.Unforch, the mah-jong club doesn’t fit into my schedule, so I decided on the next best place to find hip, happenin’ Jewish ladies who call my (almost) 40 year-old punim a “baby face”: A Hadassah meeting.Read ...

Join the Minyan with Skype

It was 1998 and I was in my first semester of rabbinical school at the Jewish Theological Seminary. My Talmud professor, Rabbi Avram Israel Reisner, approached me after class one day to discuss a project he was working on. As a member of the Conservative Movement’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards (CJLS), he was examining the legal permissibility of a virtual minyan (prayer ...

Join the Chinuch Round Table on Frum Satire

Each week one of the most widely read newspapers in the frum world publishes a question and answer article called the Chinuch Round Table. Featuring such important questions as how to keep kids on the derech, what type of school to send their slightly open minded bais yaakov girl to and whether or how to answer 4th graders who ask ...

Johnny Cash: In the Land of Israel

Like every other guy in Cow College (The College of Agriculture at the University of Maryland), I thrived on country music. Johnny Cash was one of my all-time favorites. Good ol’ Johnny loved the Land of Israel, visited it, and even wrote a song about it. We miss you, Johnny.Read More: @ lazerbrody.typepad.comReaders found more information by searching for:jonny cash jewish (1)You ...

Joan Rivers: “Rediscovered at 76″

There is a lovely piece about Joan Rivers in New York Magazine to mark the premiere of her biographical documentary, Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work. Jonathan Van Meter notes that Joan Rivers has been “rediscovered at age 76,” despite the fact that she has been in our hearts and minds all along. Not too long ago, Joan Rivers was roasted on Comedy Central. ...

Joan Krizack wins Champion of Freedom Award for the Documenting Diversity Project

In 1998, Northeastern University announced that it had received a two-year federal grant to “identify, locate, secure, and make accessible the most important and at-risk historical records of Boston’s African American, Chinese, gay and lesbian, and Latino communities.” Later that year, I met Joan Krizack, Northeastern’s University Archivist and Head of Special Collections, who had conceived the “Documenting Diversity Project.” ...