
This Pesach Check Your Ego, Not Just Your Chametz, at the Door
Perhaps you’re familiar with “Way Too Much Challah Dough,” the children’s story about the little girl who naps while baking and fretfully dreams about the
Perhaps you’re familiar with “Way Too Much Challah Dough,” the children’s story about the little girl who naps while baking and fretfully dreams about the
If you’ve never driven past a synagogue parking lot and thought to yourself, “What a great place to dump a dead body,” then clearly you’re
Sheremetyevo Airport, Moscow, December 1979. Across the airfield, Russian bombers are taking off, beginning the invasion of Afghanistan. Here on the civilian side, I’m sitting
Back in the 1960s, when I was in grade school, men wore ties to Major League Baseball games, and my public school elementary school teachers
One of the teshuva themes likely to be echoed in sermons this Elul is that last year’s teshuva was, somehow, so lacking that the result
A man who calls himself “Serenity Sam” has been a fixture for decades in Alcoholics Anonymous meetings across southern California. He tells the story of
Reviewing: “Why Not? Lessons on Comedy, Courage, and Chutzpah” by Mark Schiff. Apollo Publishers. 2022. Hardcover. 272 pages. ISBN-13: 978-1954641167. A man interested in stand-up
Reviewing: “To Heal the World?: How the Jewish Left Corrupts Judaism and Endangers Israel” by Jonathan Neumann. All Points Books. 2018. English. Hardcover. 288 pages. ISBN-13:
Reviewing: “Bibi: My Story” by Bibi Netanyahu. Threshold Editions. 2022. English. Hardcover. 736 pages. ISBN-13: 978-1668008447. Binyamin “Bibi” Netanyahu spans Israeli history like a colossus,
We are the Jews, we’ve seen this movie before, and it never ends well. There must be something enjoyable in a sick way about making
Reviewing: “Breaking History: A White House Memoir” by Jared Kushner. Broadside Books. 2022. English. Hardcover. 512 pages. ISBN-13: 978-0063221482. So here we are, two years
When we toast, we Jews like to say, “L’chaim,” which means, of course, “to life!” But maybe we should be saying, “L’mavet,” “to death,” to