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...
What We’re Reading
A sad, riveting look at the murder of 8-year-old Brooklyn boy Leiby Kletzky and the troubled Jewish man accused of the crime.
Jack Abramoff: "How do...
What We’re Reading (and Watching)
ThisNew York Times story on an Atlanta-area Chabad rabbi reviving the practice of gemach, a traditional Jewish program that offers no-interest loans to struggling Jews....
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...
Walking Over to the Other Side of the Pro-Peace Debate
By Scott Fox
Soon after I sat down at my table at a fundraiser sponsored by the local Justice in Palestine chapter, the elderly woman sitting...
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...
What Does Kosher Mean Today?
By Scott Fox
Food is perhaps one of the “greyest” aspects of Jewish life today. The Torah instructs us to abstain from ritually impure foods—but what...
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...
The Rise of Jews in the True North
By Scott Fox
Last week, Canada’s Consul General came to talk at my school (Carleton College in Minnesota) about the importance of the United States’ relationship...