The first time Megan Phelps Roper and I interacted was just before Yom Kippur in 2009. In a now famous tweet she spoke about Judaism’s “dead rote rituals” and chided me for...
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TJS S3 Interlude: 5780 A New Horizon
The High Holy Days are also know as the Days of Awe which can be awesome, or awful. Here is a look at how to tie the work of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot together into an approach to building...
ShivaWatch: The judge, the poet, the physician, and father of...
The Honorable Judge Ruth I. Abrams of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts passed away at 88. Judge Abrams, like the Notorious RBG, was one of the first women given admission into Harvard Law School...
TJS S3E15 Israel among the nations part III: Operation Kadesh
The Sinai campaign was many things – a preemptive strike against Israel’s enemies, the last gasp of colonialism in the Middle East and a complete failure of international law. This...
JewliciousEats: Annual Rosh HaShana Recipe Roundup 5780
L’SHANA TOVA. Hello from Paris, La Defense, where I am busy compiling the annual recipe roundup this week. Of course, we will start with the queen of all holiday recipes… John Nathan. Ms...
You vote for Likud – Not BIBI
In Israel we vote for the party, not the man. In Israel we have learned how to separate our personal feelings for the individual from his politics. In Israel we know that stakes are too high to get...