By Jeremy Gillick The Forward has published its annual list of America’s 50 most important Jews: the Forward 50. Winners include Rahm Emanuel, Obama's newly appointed Chief of Staff, about whom you can read here. There's also Morris Allen, a Conservative Rabbi from Minnesota who helped re-invent kashrut...
[caption id="attachment_1454" align="alignleft" width="114" caption="L'Plouffe. L'Axelrod. L'Chaim. "][/caption] By Mandy Katz Raise a glass tonight and every night through January 20. You don't have to know Hebrew to intone this one (though it helps if you daven in a leftward direction): Barack atah Illinois, Eloheinu melech...
By Benjamin Schuman-Stoler Just when we thought the diverse Jewish spectrum of beliefs could prepare us for anything, the Mormons have out-weirded us. The Church of Latter Day Saints has a ritual that baptizes dead ancestors so families can meet in the afterlife. The problem...
The Washington Post reported today on a controversial circumstance regarding an Orthodox Jewish boy on life support. The boy, Motl Brody, has an aggressive brain tumor and currently has no brain activity—he cannot breathe on his own. His family's lawyers, however, sued to contend that...
Who is Rahm Emanuel (Barack Obama’s new Chief of Staff)? For starters, he’s Jewish. He, his wife Amy, and their three children attend the Anshei Sholom B’nei Israel modern Orthodox Synagogue in Chicago. His father, Benjamin Emanuel, was born in Jerusalem and was active in the...
Hi everybody. Hope you had an easy fast yesterday. We're curious about your break-fast (or breakfast, or break fast, however you want). What'd you have? Was it good? What's the best Yom Kippur break-fast you've ever ate? We know there are some funny family traditions out...
Chabad, the ubiquitous Jewish movement best known among American Jews for its outreach on college campuses, is in many ways a mystery. Why, unlike most ultra-Orthodox, do the Lubavitch reach out to rather than reject secular Jews? What do they get when you put on...
By Inthemoment contributor Larry Kessner A few years ago, not long after my daughter's Bat Mitzvah, I was talking to a good friend who had attended the service at our large, Washington DC-area Reform temple. My friend, whose politics are similar to mine, was raised Baptist...
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUezP9Eu4m0] Even though there is plenty of politics to cover today, we thought it would be nice to give you all something a little lighter to break from the political balagan. And what can ease political chaos better than a toddler singing a Rosh Hashanah song...