Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
Eschewing every stereotype of what the life of a member of the clergy is like, a new four-hour documentary called “The Calling” debuts its first half on PBS tonight. The first half follows five people — Presbyterian Rob Pene, progressive Muslim Tahera Ahmad, African Methodist Episcopal Jeneen Robinson, Open Orthodox Yerachmiel Shapiro (the one at…
This blog has become a list of Chanukkah videos of late. But seriously, we can all just stop pretending. This is the best one. In this video for Matisyahu’s new Chanukkah song — which is catchy as all get-out — he goes on a bizarre dream adventure with the real Matisyahu (“I’m Matisyahu too.” “No,…
OK. So maybe the title is a bit of an exaggeration, but Limmud NY is pretty damn great. It’s an annual gathering of hundreds of Jews of every age (tots to college students to twentysomethings to families to retirees) and background (Orthodox to Renewal to non/post/trans-denominational to Conservative to Reform to secular to whatever the…
Crossposted to The Reform Schuckle I’ve been bemoaning my singleness a lot lately. People keep telling me to try online stuff, but it seems odd to do online dating while in college. Now, however, I’m taking the plunge. I went on JDate a few minutes ago to see what’s what. I clicked on “BROWSE FOR…
Crossposted to Jewschool On Tuesday, Nov. 23 Hebrew College is hosting a conversation with four Jewish presidents of Boston-area colleges: Rabbi Daniel L. Lehmann of Hebrew College, Leonard A. Schlesinger of Babson College, Jehuda Reinharz of Brandies University and Lawrence S. Bacow of Tufts University. I’ve got universities on the brain lately as my own…
In Spirituality House here at Drew University, all forms of the word graduate are considered bad words. We don’t talk about graduating. So the four seniors in the house–myself included–will G-word in May. At Drew, the only non-Jewish head of a school is the dean of the Methodist seminary on campus. Drew has a Jewish…
Moishe House provides a shared space and programming for post-college Jews. But is the organization another set of Jewish communal training wheels, an attempt by the Establishment Jewish community to defer adulthood for these 20-somethings?
Remember that time when I said rich people should give me money so I can continue my Jewish education? It turns out that anyone, regardless of how much money they have, can help me out with this. I applied for a blogging scholarship. Yes, it seems there are people who will give me a big…
That was the headline on my column, “On The Path,” a couple of weeks ago. OTP appears every Friday in our weekly Acorn, the student newspaper of Drew University, of which I’m a former editor in chief. That week, I wrote about the horrid question people never stop asking college seniors. It’s not really about anything…
Crossposted to Jewschool and The Reform Shuckle. I have a friend, X. X college graduate. X wants to do a variety of Jewish learning and then go to a rabbinical school. X also has what basically amounts to no money. X also works for a Jewish non-profit that has a wealthy executive director. We were…
I wrote recently that the holiest day of the University of Texas year and the holiest day of the Jewish year would coincide next fall when the Red River Rivalry (the big game to end all big games) will be played on Yom Kippur. One story I somehow missed until now about this was an…
Crossposted to Jewschool. Yesterday, I posted my letter to the editor of the New Jersey Jewish Standard, chastising them for what I believe I said was pusillanimous journalism. If you haven’t been following this, they printed an announcement of a gay wedding last week. This week, under pressure from a cabal of Orthodox rabbis, they apologized to…
The following was crossposted to Jewschool. It was also emailed to New Jersey Jewish Standard Editor Rebecca Boroson, who you can also email at editor@jewishmediagroup.com. For a little background, check out today’s Reading List. To the editor: As a member of both the New Jersey press and the Jewish press, I am deeply disturbed by your…
It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of Park 51, the thing that is going to be neither a mosque nor at Ground Zero. Io9, my favorite scifi blog, reports that designs of Park 51–which may never actually get built because they don’t have any money, but never mind that…–look like Superman’s Fortress of…