For the 27 years of my married life, I measured all the mikvah ladies I met by Rachel. It was unfair competition. Had Agnon known her, he would have written a story about her, like he did about Tehila. But, of course, he couldn\’t have known her like we, the women, did.
\”I would prefer to marry someone who\’s Jewish,\” Cindy Chupack said, because most Jews have a \”built-in sense of humor, just because we\’ve had to develop one; it\’s one of our survival instincts or something.\” She finds humor really sexy, and likes Jewish family values, \”but we haven\’t cornered the market on that,\” she said.
So what is Ron Wolfson\’s opinion when it comes to those $100 and $150 price tags on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur seats? Are the charges really necessary? Is the cost too high?
After Stanford University graduate Jonna Tamases survived two different cancers in the 1980s, her life took an unexpected turn: She ran off to join the circus.
With chapters organized by decades, \”Stars\” devotes chapters to some shopworn but necessary rock pioneers — Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Bob Dylan, Roth — as well as more eclectic entries: late T-Rex frontman Marc Bolan, Lee Oskar of WAR and Phish bassist Mike Gordon, suddenly topical after he was arrested Aug. 16 and charged with endangering the welfare of a minor.
We are in the month of Elul, and I\’m taking inventory of my year. Much of the year for me was about how I dealt with my grief; it was about the process of letting go.
We leave well before dawn and as we speed through darkness I keep asking myself how it is that I\’m now the parent of a college student — I can still remember vividly the details of my own freshman year almost 30 years ago.
When I grew up in the outskirts of Philadelphia in the early 1980s, going to a Jewish overnight camp meant spending eight weeks in the Poconos with a bunch of pampered girls with last names like Greenberg, Cohen and Leibman
For his third slice of \”Pie,\” Adam Herz upgraded to wedding cake because \”I was hosting bachelor parties and going to like, 10 weddings a year.\”
Located on 3,000 acres in the Santa Susana Mountains — the largest piece of land owned by a Jewish institution outside of Israel — BBI, the pluralistic Jewish retreat center, has established a dedicated following since it acquired its first piece of property in 1947.
