08 May

Culture

Recovering Messiah: Marc Maron

• May 16, 2023
• By navid
• 0 comments

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...

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03 May

Uncategorized

Come And Knock On Our Door, Ira Glass

• May 8, 2012
• By Sala Levin
• 1 comment

We thought we couldn't love Ira Glass anymore. The hipster glasses. The public-radio sensitivity. The Baltimore roots. But then he recorded the title story of...

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02 May

000 JPVP, Culture

A Vietnamese Yom Kippur

• August 31, 2021
• By Sala Levin
• 1 comment

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...

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23 Apr

Uncategorized

The Wandering Jews

• July 24, 2012
• By Sala Levin
• 3 comments

by Kelley Kidd I spent Passover this year in Washington, DC. It was a far cry from the fall, when I celebrated the High Holy Days...

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13 Apr

Culture, Misc, Religion

Thousands of Little Pharaohs: The Plight of the Agunah

• February 1, 2013
• By Moment
• 2 comments

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...

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10 Apr

Uncategorized

Beating the Passover Doldrums

• March 25, 2023
• By Sala Levin
• 2 comments

by Kelley Kidd It is around this time during Passover, as the seder leftovers begin to dwindle, that I begin to rapidly lose interest in the...

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04 Apr

History, Misc, topics

Escape from Freedom?

• February 1, 2013
• By Moment
• 0 comments

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...

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03 Apr

Culture

A Match Made in the O.R.

• May 8, 2012
• By Sala Levin
• 1 comment

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...

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31 Mar

2012 May/June, Book Review, Issues, Topics

Book Review | In Love with Life—and Himself

• January 31, 2013
• By Justin Sovine
• 0 comments

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...

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31 Mar

2012 May/June, Arts, Food, Issues, Series, Talk of the Table

The Food of Great Fiction

• July 25, 2019
• By Sala Levin
• 0 comments

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...

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31 Mar

2012 May/June, Ask the Rabbis, Issues, Religion, Series, U.S. Politics

Ask The Rabbis | Will It Matter to Jews If There Is a Mormon President?

• July 25, 2019
• By Justin Sovine
• 0 comments

INDEPENDENT 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...

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31 Mar

2012 May/June, Arts, Issues, Jewish Word, Topics

Jewish Word | The Rabbinic Way of Fiction

• July 25, 2019
• By Justin Sovine
• 0 comments

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...

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