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...
Come And Knock On Our Door, Ira Glass
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...
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...
The Wandering Jews
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...
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...
Beating the Passover Doldrums
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...
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...