The 13th Annual Other Israel Film Festival arrived in Manhattan this week, filled with films and...
TJS S3E18 The Eichmann Trial
The Holocaust was so dark and vast that Jews around the world struggled to integrate it into their...
TJS S3E17: The Kastner affair
The memory of the the Holocaust is dark and traumatic enough that it threatens to overwhelm even...
TJS S3E16 Israel at age ten
Life offers so few opportunities to stop and reflect that we need to seize every chance. What...
“I had been bested” Megan Phelps on Sam Harris...
Megan Phelps Roper was on the Sam Harris podcast to talk about her recently released book Unfollow:...
TJS S3 Interlude: Kingdom or client state
Sukkot is a time to sit in the Sukkah and reflect, so here are a few thoughts from my Sukkah. This...
Yom Kippur: Some Fave Online Live Webcasts 5780
For those not able to get to a synagogue physically, or for those who fear a scene like that in the...
JewliciousReads: Four Cookbooks and a Numeral
As Erev Yom Kippur approaches, my thoughts are focused on repentence and cookbooks. Four new ones...
Unfollow on Good Morning America
The first time Megan Phelps Roper and I interacted was just before Yom Kippur in 2009. In a now...
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...