Mazal Tov to George and Sara. I don’t know them, but this proposal is awesome. May we all merit to meet our beshert.
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Spertus to launch MA in Jewish Professional Studies
This is an interesting development. Instead of a degree from a “Jewish Studies Department” or an MSW, now people who want to work in eternal servitude of their people (you fools! don’t do it!) with an accompanying eternal lack of thanks can learn how to do it! Spertus’ [...]
The latest from the Pulitzer-winning novelist is a “murder-mystery speculative-history Jewish-identity noir chess thriller,” in the words of Publishers Weekly. It’s a private-eye story set in a fictional community of Jewish exiles — “the frozen chosen” — displaced to a temporary settlement in Alaska by World War II.
He appears in Chicago for a NextBook program [...]
It’s tonight, yo. We will be talking the December Dilemma, since most of our regulars are folks with Jews and non-Jews in the family. How do you juggle Christmas Mania with Hanukah Hoopla? How do you keep peace in the home with so many holidays and expectations running around?
See you at 7PM TONIGHT!
I had the pleasure of meeting Ellie and Akira in March in New York. I was on my way home from Jerusalem, we were blog friends, so we had brunch on the UWS. Or was it the Upper East Side?
Doesn’t matter, because now they are PARENTS!!!!
Mazel Tov to the Ohiso family!
Last year, about this time on the Hebrew calendar, I was celebrating becoming a Jew. (Although looking at that blog post, I always thought that I converted on November 17 and it was the 16th, so yesterday was my anniversary, not today. Oops.)
I’m sure that in a few years, this date will shrink in importance. [...]
“How many of you have ever heard your parents or grandparents say, ‘When I was your age, I?’” and all the hands went up.”How many of you have ever heard a rabbi say, ‘That reminds me of a story?’” and the adults laughed and all the hands went up.
“How many of you have sat year [...]
This week, if case you haven’t been to shul for the past four weekends straight for the Holidays, consider that this town in Poland is having its first Shabbat in nearly seven decades. It says something about the revival going on in Poland, but it also says alot about the time its taken to get [...]
I”m new to this blog, but you’ll get to know me quickly. I”m the kvetcher, the one who bitches and moans about crap everyone else is to scared to bring up lest they bite the hand that feeds them. I don’t care because I’ve got no investment.
So just in time for the High Holidays, I [...]
Our pal Mike Abitbol is starting a great new Thursday residency at Mix (formerly Crush) on Halsted as a way to bring together Jews, chews and schmooze in the Lakeview neighborhood. Mike’s Place kicks off October 3rd. 5th @8:30pm (sorry)
Like I said, I’m at BlogHer this weekend in San Jose, California. I missing Shabbat, but at the same time this conference is a great way to spend Shabbat. I’m learning, I’m connecting with people, I’m telling my Jewish story to people who might not know any Jewish stories.
I’m in a session called “Mommy Blogging is a [...]
Synablog highlights a speech Rabbi Sharon Brous of IKAR given at UCLA Hillel as part of Los Angeles’s People of the Book Festival in late April of this year that makes some concise, bold statements that ring so very truly.
“It seems to me that our community has made some real miscalculations in addressing the growing [...]
I wrote a really long post in response to the New Jew question. Apparently, it wasn’t good enough–Typepad ate it for dinner. I’m too tired to write it again, but I will leave you with this.
No matter what “they” fund, they better buy a lot of name tags. Yes, I’m talking, “Hello My Name is.” [...]
Our Turn Our grandparents built synagogues and our parents joined them. We build websites and join myspace.com. We’re different from past Jewish generations, and we know it. There’s studies and evidence out there backing it up, but we feel it in our kishkes.
The question What does our connection to Judaism, synagogues, Israel and other young [...]
Great. News of yet another wad of cash crapped into another building that does nothing to advance Jewish identity. I mourn my people’s tragedy and can name 100 victims of my family murdered outside the Pripyet Marshes and in the Ghetto of Pinsk, but when are we gonna stop feeding at the [...]
Can someone please explain why Chicago, the whose motto is “Urbis in Horto” (City in a Garden) we don’t have a Jewish Environmental initiative? If anyone is interested in getting their green thumbs out of their @#$% please get in touch with greens@jewishfringe.com.
After much fanfare about moving from its Andersonville storefront into the soon-to-be-shuttered- Kaplan JCC in Skokie, Chicago Jewish Theatre is throwing in the towel. The Sun Times did some digging and Chicago Jewish News had to backpeddle from the feature story on the move with another article on the theatre’s demise.
That’s embarrassing, since in [...]
Y’all saw this right? The article in the NY Times about Wal-Mart Jews and the first synagogue in Bentonville, Arkansas.
Last summer my friends Jake and Jen visited me from Arkansas. They joined me for my Jew 101 class and learned a ton about Judaism while they were here. It is something they haven’t been exposed [...]
Hello j-blogosphere, my name is Remily.
Often I find myself spending way too much time overanalyzing issues in the Jewish community at large and more specifically here in Chicagoland. I was downtown today, hanging out in the Loop, showing out of towners the sites and I realized that my absolute favorite place in our city is [...]
Where you, my northwest siders? You Logan Square L’Chaim Drinkers, you Wicker Park Party Planners, you Bucktown Buchurim, you Humboldt Park Hebrews, you West Town Torah, you North and Damen Dwellers, you Division and Ashland… Okay you get the point.
But we know you’re curious about the coffee bean mezzuzot at Filter, that a member of [...]
