02 Nov Culture Not So Secular: Jews Occupy Wall Street November 2, 2011 By Sala Levin 1 comment Facebook Twitter Pinterest linkedin Telegram by Steven Philp The Occupy Wall Street movement is populated by the disaffected and anti-religious left--that is, if you ignore the Je...Continue reading
28 Oct Culture A Very Jewish Halloween October 28, 2011 By Sala Levin 3 comments Facebook Twitter Pinterest linkedin Telegram by Sala Levin Halloween approacheth, and with it the opportunity to impress your friends with the wittiness and originality of your ...Continue reading
27 Oct Culture, Politics, Religion Left-leaning, But Not Left Behind October 27, 2011 By Sala Levin 4 comments Facebook Twitter Pinterest linkedin Telegram by Erica Shaps I am not a rabbinical student. My talit was made in Israel and I recently celebrated my 20th birthday in Jerusalem, not...Continue reading
26 Oct Arts & Culture Auslander in the Attic July 31, 2017 By Sala Levin 1 comment Facebook Twitter Pinterest linkedin Telegram by Sala Levin The Holocaust, as Michael Scott so wisely taught us, is one thing we just can't joke about. (Scott's other taboos? JFK...Continue reading
18 Oct Religion Israeli Holidays: Reaching New Highs October 18, 2011 By Sala Levin 2 comments Facebook Twitter Pinterest linkedin Telegram by Erica Shaps While I gaped at my surroundings with shock and wonder, my Yom Kippur hosts smiled at me with amusement and understandi...Continue reading
17 Oct Religion Losing (and Finding) My Religion October 17, 2011 By Sala Levin 2 comments Facebook Twitter Pinterest linkedin Telegram by Maddie Ulanow It’s always interesting when, on a particular Friday night, we get a new high turnout of students for the weekly Shab...Continue reading
05 Oct Arts & Culture, Culture Helen Schulman on This Beautiful Life October 5, 2011 By Sala Levin 0 comments Facebook Twitter Pinterest linkedin Telegram by Beth Kissileff Helen Schulman is the author of novel This Beautiful Life, her fifth novel, which takes on the contemporary issue of...Continue reading
23 Sep Culture, Food, History Jane Ziegelman on Food and the American Story June 4, 2013 By Sala Levin 1 comment Facebook Twitter Pinterest linkedin Telegram 97 Orchard, by Jane Ziegelman, tells the story of five immigrant families living on Manhattan's Lower East Side at the turn of the twen...Continue reading
21 Sep Culture, History, topics The Long and Winding Road to Interfaith Dialogue September 21, 2011 By Sala Levin 1 comment Facebook Twitter Pinterest linkedin Telegram by Steven Philp While the media spent the morning of September 11 replaying footage of the terrorist attacks of that day in 2001, small...Continue reading
09 Sep Moment Magazine Moment's Elephant in the Room Contest September 9, 2011 By Sala Levin 5 comments Facebook Twitter Pinterest linkedin Telegram Entries are coming in for the Elephant in the Room essay contest (http://www.momentmag.com/elephant.html), in which we are asking for a...Continue reading