Much has been made of this year’s coincidence of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving. This (extremely) rare…
Month: November 2013
Not in the sense that you might think. Or maybe both. The recent news that…
My current bedside table – dogeared copies of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and the…
We are a culture of ‘raters.’ We love to take a movie, or a book,…
Rabbi Danny Gordis’ recent article ‘Requiem for a Movement’ (jewishreviewofbooks.com) has raised the ire of…
Space, the final frontier. If you grew up during the late 60s and 70s that…
I wonder what message the group Open Carry Texas intended to convey by showing up…
This past week marked the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the ‘night of broken glass,’ when…
A few days ago Susan Katz Miller published an op ed piece in the NY…