The end of the year brings Hanukkah, Christmas, the stress of finding the perfect New Year's Eve plans and a barrage of best-of lists. Christmas and Hanukkah are now behind us, and we may not be able to help with the New Year's plans, but...
By Matthew Kassel Christmas doesn’t mean much to me anymore, though for the first ten years of my life, it was my favorite holiday. Pretty standard, even for a Jewish child, to be drawn in with eager spirit by that yuletide festivity. But you might wonder:...
by Erica Shaps [caption id="" align="alignright" width="276" caption="It's best not to think about how many people have touched these challahs."][/caption] In a few weeks, I will be coming to the end of seven months spent in Israel. When I first arrived, I thought I was pretty familiar...
[caption id="attachment_5532" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Berlin's Weissensee Cemetery (courtesy of Seventh Art Releasing)"][/caption] A documentary about a cemetery: It may not sound like much of a crowd-pleaser, but the German film In Heaven, Underground, directed by Britta Wauer and tracking the 131-year history of Europe's second-largest Jewish...
By Scott Fox A girls' high school catering to Orthodox Jews in the little town of Bricelyn, Minnesota, population 340. Sounds crazy, no? On the surface, The Minnesota Girls Academy (MGA) seems unusual for several reasons, which could be a reason for its lack of success....
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="294" caption="Jews? Yeah, we didn't think so, either."][/caption] So, listen, we get it: The whole greatest-Jewish-movies thing is overdone. We know that Fiddler on the Roof is Jewish. Yentl? Yep, lots of tzitzit and shtenders in that one, too. Sure, even Clueless has...
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="224" caption="Who couldn't love this face? (Christopher Kingswood)"][/caption] 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 176 text messages and 23 emails over a 16-hour period...
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="224" caption="Who couldn't love this face? (Christopher Kingswood)"][/caption] 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 176 text messages and 23 emails over a 16-hour period...
This profile of Gene Weingarten, the scatalogically inclined humorist and brilliant Washington Post journalist. Weingarten is the only person to win two Pulitzers for feature writing: the first for his account of an experiment gauging whether or not hustling rush-hour commuters would recognize the singular...
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 is the only fully accredited Buddhist post-secondary institution in the United States. I enrolled in Naropa's Contemplative Religions program because...