"I'm an Israeli Spy": Best Pickup Line Ever? Best Pickup Line Ever.
Guys, a tip: If you're married but, you know, flexible, and you embark on an affair with a younger co-worker who then decides that your...
Other Religions: The Jewish Final Frontier?
by Matt Ponak
I started the first year of my Master’s degree in August of 2010 at Naropa University. A private school in Boulder, Colorado, Naropa...
The Case for Alan Gross
by Maddie Ulanow
Alan Gross is a 60-year-old resident of Potomac, Maryland, a quiet Washington suburb with a thriving Jewish community. A father of two and...
Boker Tov!
It's Friday! Let's celebrate the arrival of the weekend with this video of New York Knick Amar'e Stoudemire teaching us about the word "tov" on...
Why Pray?
by Emily Goldberg
Judaism is ever-evolving, a religion that has for centuries faced the challenges of modernization. With young people steering these new paths, our religion...
O Come, All Ye Chosen
Mid-November means that it's officially pumpkin spice latte and peppermint mocha season at Starbucks. (What, you don't measure time by the seasonal offerings of national...
Go East, Mr. President
by Maddie Ulanow
We’ve passed the first two weeks of November, and the 2012 presidential elections are now just a year away. It seems the campaign...
The Goldstone Saga
by Erica Shaps
Every year at Brandeis University there is at least one Israel/Palestine-related event that lights a fire under the campus. My freshman year, it...
Rav Kook Meets Jazz
by Matt Ponak
It was a cold wintry day during Hannukah of 2007 when I first met Rabbi Itzchak Marmorstein. While I was visiting a professor...
Not So Secular: Jews Occupy Wall Street
by Steven Philp
The Occupy Wall Street movement is populated by the disaffected and anti-religious left--that is, if you ignore the Jews. A recent article by...
A Very Jewish Halloween
by Sala Levin
Halloween approacheth, and with it the opportunity to impress your friends with the wittiness and originality of your costume. Or--if you're like this...