Religion & Beliefs

NCSY Expounds On Using Their “Cultural” Groups to Recruit Public School Students to Orthodoxy

In an Orthodox newspaper, NCSY dropped pretense of ecumenical goals of “cultural” clubs, and detailed their “kiruv”…

President Obama Wants You To Have a Pleasant Diwali

  This video is nice and all, but it’s no "The Office" Diwali episode. If…

Christians (and Controversy) Descend on Israel for Sukkot

Jerusalem was busy last week as thousands descended on the city for Sukkot and the…

Real Talk Parsha: Bereshit

So here we are at the start of it all:  the beginning of this wild…

Judaism In the Year 2040

As the Coordinator of the Half-Jewish Network, the largest international organization for adult children and…

Spiritual Seeking, Shrooms, and Shabbat

Raw Shabbat. Taco Truck Shabbat. Brown Bag Shabbat. Everyone is trying to re-invent the wheel,…

Ahmadinejad: World’s Biggest Self-Hating Jew?

An article in the daily Israeli paper Ha’aretz suggests that the virulent strain of anti-Israel,…

Why I Don’t Believe In G-d (and Don’t Mind If You Do)

[This is a response to yesterday’s post by Patrick Aleph, "Why I Believe in G-d,…