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Pew Research Center's “Portrait of American Jews” misrepresents the Millennials
“I am just Jewish!” Shira Fisher of the Washington Minyan in Boston was emphatically declaring her objections to the categories in a recent study called “Portrait of American Jews.” According to her,...
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Every 77,000 years, American Jewish Holiday combines with Thanksgiving.
Recently, the Bagel Bards, Boston's Bloomsbury group, began a discussion of Thanksgivvukah, the newly dubbed American Jewish Holiday. It happens that this year, Chanukah, the Jewish eight day...
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Another suicide: a nice young Jewish teenager
Newton parents are reeling, ironically this last Valentine's day, because they learned of the third high school suicide during this school year. This time it was a lovely young man, an athlete, a...
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Creativity: created in the image of God
In the history of ideas, creativity as a notion of human innovation is a fairly recent emphasis. In the western Judeo-Christian epoch, creation began with the Bible describing the introduction to the...
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There's still time for Purim in Boston
It's not to late to catch Purim in Boston, even though the story of Purim is read today. Keshet's Gender Schmear party will be held on March 27th in downtown Boston at the Sheraton. ...
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Zalman Schacter-Shalomi and the long history of Jewish-Sufism
The TV news crawl at the bottom of the Al Jazeera screen read: “Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, father of Jewish Renewal, dies in Colorado.” Reb Zalman, as he was called by his followers, would have...
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How a wealthy Jewish princess changed the face of Buddhism: Part 1
Ilse Lederman was born in 1923; she was a wealthy secular Jewish Princess who even attended the 1936 World Olympics in Berlin. Her entire life is anti-stereotypical: she was the oldest child,...
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How a wealthy Jewish princess changed the face of Buddhism: Part 2
Buddhist nun Ayya Khema, born Ilse Lederman a wealthy German Jewish Princess, took a frightening turn as Hitler’s anti-Semitic purge drove her family from Berlin prestige. She was the oldest child, by...
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9 Events at Hebrew College, Newton MA, this fall
Upcoming events at Hebrew College include a diversity of topics. They range from Rabbinic Law, genetics, to the question of women as persons. Listed below are the offerings through December.1. Legal...
View ArticleA new Jewish Feminism for the 21st Century: Post-triumphalism
Some years ago I began a workshop with a soulful recording of a wordless Hasidic tune, a niggun, sung by a male cantor. Upon hearing this, a female colleague admonished me: “That should be sung by a...
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To God or not to God: That is the Question
In a posh Italian restaurant owned by a recent émigré from Egypt, a table of diners was held captive by the owner explaining his Coptic Christian faith. Founded by the Apostle Mark in 42 A.D. the...
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Eight little known facts about the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Rabbi Joseph Teluskhin has added another book to the continuing documentation of the life and influence of Menachem M. Schneerson, the departed leader of the Lubavitcher orthodox community known as...
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Boston Jewish Film Festival's roster grows
The Boston Jewish Film Festival begins in March and features artists from all over the world. An amazing evening in March will feature two superstars of the music world: E Street Band Drummer Max...
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Upcoming Arts Events for Boston Jewish Community Center
Upcoming ARTS Events at the Boston Jewish Community CenterSaturday, May 2 | 8pm Singer, Author, Raconteur Kinky Friedman: Richard "Kinky" Friedman styles himself in the mold of popular American...
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Hebrew College's environmental call to action
Rachel Maddow, the news commentator has just announced that the month of July recorded the hottest temperatures in the history of the planet. Global warming has heated up to perhaps the point of no...
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Another country heard from: a new Jewish Ukrainian history book
Jewish Ludmir by local tour guide Volodymyr Muzychenko’s a finely tuned scholarly work that mines Ukrainian and Russian archives for materials previously unavailable to American scholars. As head of...
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Novelist or stand up comic?
Ellen Golub’s first novel Psycho-Semitic (sic!) has contributed a uniquely humorous voice to Jewish American fiction. This is immediately demonstrated in the author’s bio that accompanies the book on...
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Breaking story: Bernie Sanders - an unlikely possible endorsement Part 1.
“So, did you hear what happened between the Lubavitcher Rebbe and Bernie Sanders?”This question is now buzzing around the U.S. and even abroad as the Chabad rabbis of Jewish outreach finished their...
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Breaking News: Part 2 – Bernie Sanders on Israel and his Judaism
As the previous Part 1 article indicated, Bernie Sanders is not a stranger to his Judaism. He set the precedent for a civil liberties case allowing Chabad, the orthodox outreach organization of the...
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An Open letter to the Millennials about their spiritual future
My dear Millennials,As a feminist of the older generation, I would like to reach across the great eldering divide to you of the more recent generation. As Bernie Sanders might say: “We may have a...
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