Sergiu Simmel
Chana Mendelsohn may be her parents second child, but to the people of Wyoming’s Teton County, the newborn girl will always be a first. Go here to read the rest: Wyoming Newborn Already Increasing Jewish Awareness Read More →
Question: I am a Kohen , and I know that I can’t marry a divorcee. But why not? Answer: The Torah states (Leviticus 21:7) that “…they [i.e. priests] shall not marry a woman who has been divorced from her husband, because he [i.e. the...
Oh, Focus on the Family, if you weren’t so scary and powerful, I’d call you the gift that keeps on giving, since truly, there is always something new with you. This year, for example, you bring us Stand For Christmas to help us figure out...
Some people see halakha as a sort of calculator into which you enter circumstances and from which you obtain answers. Some people see it as a great tide sweeping across time and space and carrying the Jews willy-nilly with it. And some people see it...
The nice people at the Forward asked me to weigh in on the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism’s recent stated desire to reach the “young adult” demographic . Here’s what I said: Rabbi Steven Wernick, the new head of the...
The Jewish Book Council announced the finalists for their Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and Jewschool’s very own Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg made the list for her memoir, Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion (published...
(Crossposted to Mah Rabu .) Blogging from the Bolt Bus on the way, appropriately, to the National Havurah Committee board meeting: Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight wrote this insightful post last fortnight following the elections: Why did Democrats lose...
Tablet Magazine hit another home run again today, with Josh Lambert’s column – On the Bookshelf – focusing on immigrants and emigres. In his coverage of peripatetic Jewish families, he mentioned a slew of good books . In Jacob’s Cane:...
“Lights, Camera, Social Action – Jewesses in Hollywood” Olivia Cohen-Cutler, senior vice-president of ABC Television, chair of the Morningstar Commission, and board member of the Jewish Women’s Archive will lead a discussion on the...
