Marshall Breger: Why Jews Can’t Criticize Sharia Law
Similarities between Judaism and Islam are easy to see. Both are monotheistic religions for whom the Lord is One. Both are religions based on revelation....
Recovering Messiah: Marc Maron
If ever there was a tale of comic resurrection, it belongs to Marc Maron.
The 48-year-old comedian’s climb back from drugs, drinking and despair—with a lot...
A Vietnamese Yom Kippur
by Kelley Kidd
A Yom Kippur spent fasting on the beautiful island paradise of Phu Quoc, in Vietnam, is not my typical Day of Atonement. But...
Thousands of Little Pharaohs: The Plight of the Agunah
By Martin Berman-Gorvine
In this Passover season, consider the plight of Jewish women whose marriages have ended but whose (former) husbands refuse them a get (bill...
Escape from Freedom?
By Martin Berman-Gorvine
As Passover approaches, I have been reading the psychologist Erich Fromm’s 1941 work, Escape from Freedom. Writing when Nazi Germany was at its...
A Match Made in the O.R.
by Sala Levin
The dating ritual is replete with anxieties: What dress to wear? How long should I wait to call after the date? Is my...
Book Review | In Love with Life—and Himself
By Alan A. Stone
DucClaude Lanzmann is known on this side of the Atlantic as the Frenchman who created the monumental film, Shoah. He tells us that...
The Food of Great Fiction
Here a Roth, there a Stein, everywhere a Kafka—Jews are the people of the book, a group that has long prized its own erudition and...
Ask The Rabbis | Will It Matter to Jews If There Is a Mormon President?
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Historically, the religious affiliation of a governmental leader has never been an issue for the Jewish people, as long as the government involved was not...
Jewish Word | The Rabbinic Way of Fiction
By Sala Levin
You may know the story: Abraham, in an effort to convince his father, Terach, that idol worship is wrong, takes a hammer and...
Marshall Breger: U.S. Citizenship: Priceless or Merely Convenient?
By Marshall Breger
In 2011, Sen. Joseph Lieberman suggested that U.S. nationals, “homegrown” or otherwise, be stripped of their citizenship if they are “engaging in or...
David Hazony: Israel Catches a “Flytilla” with (Serious) Satire
First off, let me be clear that I do not condone Israel’s official use of sarcasm, wit or anything else that could be construed as...