Come on…you know you want it. (670 comments can’t be wrong…) According to the JTA: A new initiative at Yeshiva University here aims to tackle an issue that organizers say has...
Author - Esther Kustanowitz
A Bird May Love a Fish, Part Deux: Children of Intermarriage
Last week, I posted about two people, both Jewish, but of differing perspectives, trying to have a relationship. That obviously raised its own issues. But separate, and in some ways more difficult to...
A Bird May Love a Fish: But Where Will They Go To Shul?
As far back as I can remember, the classic rabbinic-style response to why intermarriages don’t generally work comes in the form of an animal metaphor (because all rabbis aspired to be Aesop): a...
Hummus: Potentially Trayf?
Some foods, like pig and lobster, will never be kosher (unless God Herself speaks from the heavens and declares it so–and even then, there will likely be rabbis who dispute the proclamation)...
Paging Wine Guy; Come In, Wine Guy
I’m sorry to say that even after a fine presentation by not one, but TWO Wine Guys at Jewlicious @ the Beach in April, I still can’t really taste the difference between a cabernet and a...
This Space For Rent
A Utah woman has tattooed the name of an internet gambling site on her forehead; she sold the space for $10,000 on Ebay, and says that she needed the money to pay for her son’s Jewish education...


