A friend did a great kindness for my family and me, so I went to buy her flowers. White hydrangeas, pale yellow roses and bright yellow spray roses adorned my cart at Trader Joe’s as I proceeded to do my weekly shop. Somewhere along the way, I jarred the flowers while I was loading up. […]
Football has always been my favorite sport because of how much it requires of the player both physically and mentally, but I never dreamed that it would one day impact me spiritually. In 2004, when I spent the year studying in yeshiva in Jerusalem, on Saturday nights, I would play flag football in the American Football […]
The 25th anniversary of the falling of the Twin Towers is on Sunday. Like many, I have distinct memories of September 11, 2001: I was in second grade, and was already in my Brooklyn classroom davening shacharis by the time the first plane crashed into the North Tower. While understanding the gravity of the situation, […]
Actress Sandra Bullock recently admitted on a podcast that she’s seen UFO’s. When people imagine UFOs, they almost always imagine a circle. The old language was “flying saucers,” a disc in the sky. The newer language is orbs, spheres, round lights, metallic balls. It is the same shape, seen across eighty years of witnesses, now […]
Following two decades of socio-political change (and pressure from the Arab-American community), the US Census Bureau appears to be on its way to establishing a new Middle Eastern/North African category — separate from the “White-American” category we had hitherto been included under — on the 2030 census. As things appear now, this category will encompass […]
The 3rd Jewish Media Awards are coming to Lincoln Center on November 5. We’ll be announcing this year’s winners and opening up ticket sales next month! The 2nd Jewish Media Awards brought together some of the incredible people shaping Jewish storytelling and representation today. Winners included Fauda and Jewish Matchmaking, with presenters including Patricia Heaton […]
