I caught up with Frasier’s Bebe Neuwirth on the red carpet at the premiere of Morgan Freeman’s “Story of God” and asked her what being a Jew means to her. Watch her touching response.
Did you ever consider that both Purim and Chanukah contain toys which spin? But why does one spin from below while the other spins from above?
Did you ever consider that Queen Esther is a much better female role model for our kids than the Disney princesses we give them from the youngest age?
Several years ago, I was at a conference, and a guy at my table started up with me after he found out that I was observant. “I’m not religious,” he began, “but I get Shabbat. I see the value in kosher. But that whole no touching before marriage thing that you Orthodox Jews do – that […]
I was recently talking to a reporter from a major women’s magazine who’s working on a story about Orthodox women and modest dress, and as I was giving her the lowdown, she commented that I seem so confident about my body. Did dressing modestly help me with that, she wanted to know. It was weird, […]
I have always considered myself an open-minded, non-judgmental person. As a kid, although we were not particularly religious, my parents were strict that that my sisters and I had to marry someone Jewish (for the sake of Jewish continuity), but they were always very clear that it did not matter what color or ethnicity the […]
