Maya Bernstein
My oldest daughter recently performed in her kindergarten’s annual Thanksgiving Extravaganza. What is it about watching your kid in a school performance that turns a parent into dripping, slobbering mush?… Read more »
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Farmer’s Market
Maya Bernstein
It happened, and then it was over. There was nothing much to talk about, and I have mostly forgotten the details. The images are somehow fuzzy, remembered in strange slow… Read more »
Gangs of Meah She’arim
Tara Bognar
Last week, a Meah She’arim gang that calls itself the Sikrikim assaulted a small group of Haredi girls, yelling and spitting at them for not being quite modestly dressed enough.… Read more »
A-Salaam Alaykoum
Merissa Nathan Gerson
Somewhere between San Francisco and Berkeley I developed a craving for hummus. Not hippie grocery hummus, not coffee shop hummus, not deli hummus but hummus, the real deal. I took… Read more »
Riding the Buses in Jerusalem
by Nancy K. Kaufman
Cross-posted with The NCJW Insider. I am writing from Jerusalem where I am on a study tour with 23 women from the National Council of Jewish Women. We are here… Read more »
The Quest for Connection
Amanda Walgrove
Tiffany Shlain’s newest film, “Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology,” explores the history of human interaction, and the hope that natural and technological connections don’t have to be… Read more »
Enough with stereotypes
Tara Bognar
The media coverage and commentary immediately following Sam Friedlander’s murder of his wife Amy and their two children included a disturbing level of victim-blaming: Michael Borg: “I have heard from… Read more »
Occupy Judaism – More Than A Damn Good Slogan?
Amy Stone
Is Occupy Judaism no more than a great slogan, springing from the head of social media maven Daniel J. Sieradski? Or is it verbal fuel with the power to ignite… Read more »
Business Trip
Maya Bernstein
Six years ago it was evening, and the light came gently through the slats of the hospital window shades, and the room was strangely calm, and it was all so… Read more »
Of Buses and Borough Park
Tara Bognar
Segregating a certain class of people to the back of the bus has an intense resonance for anyone raised on stories of the Black civil rights struggle, Rosa Parks, and… Read more »