I know I don’t have to and I don’t judge women who don’t. When I was studying in seminary in Israel for the year during college (I took a year off after my freshman year), a girl in class asked my rabbi if baggy snow pants are OK to ski in. He said, “Yes.” (Though, it […]
US figure skater Alysa Liu, made a remarkable comeback, winning an Olympic gold medal last week after taking two years off from her sport. Fans noticed the joy that was infused into her routine. Her story isn’t just inspirational for the regular reasons. It is also bizarrely connected to the Makom branch of our organization, […]
Two children, a brother and sister, are fighting: calling each other names, bringing each other to tears. Their father stays out of it at first. He’s hoping his kids will work things out on their own, but they don’t. The bickering escalates until the father finally throws them into a time-out. He wants his children […]
I didn’t comment on the Stand Up To Jewish Hate Super Bowl commercial right away because I didn’t want to pile on. It takes guts to put yourself out there, and projects don’t always land where you hope they would. I also don’t doubt Robert Kraft’s good intentions. I heard him speak at a Yeshiva […]
When we returned to Sundance this week for the third time, I felt like a pro. I knew how to navigate Main Street and where to stay to be close to the local kosher restaurant. Once again, we came back to a packed room for our panel, but this time we had hard data to […]
Mireille Silcoff, an author and cultural critic who lives in Montreal recently penned a poignant piece for the New York Times Magazine: There’s Something Missing in Films About Jewish Cultural Figures. In it, she describes how Jewish identity is missing from all the major Jewish biopics of late, be it Oppenheimer, about Robert J. Oppenheimer – […]
