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Fringesters: Short but delightfully packed interview up on Bigmouth Indeed Strikes Again (my blog) that I conducted with Scott Korb and Peter Bebergal, authors of The Faith Between Us, A Jew and a Catholic Search for the Meaning of G-d. Beautiful read, wonderful guys. Show some love: Meet Korb and Berbergal, check out the interview, […]
There’s a long sordid history of Jews and Blacks in Chicago. some of its good and some of it is not. LAWNDALE is the old west-side neighborhood where from 1920-1959 or so, nearly 200,000 Jews lived within a square mile. You can still see the old, magnificent shuls along Douglas and Independence Boulevards, along with […]
Two years ago, when I came out to one of my closest friends as a potential convert to Judaism, he asked, “What about Christmas? Won’t you miss Christmas?”
“No, of course not. It is just a day we get together as a family, it doesn’t have any religious meaning. Besides, I don’t even decorate for Christmas.”
This […]
Okay, not a shocker, but a possible surprise. Something about the Christian claim on the Dead Sea Scrools always sorta creeped me out and made me feel like our ancient Jewish texts were being appropriated by a completely different religion all over again. Not that we don’t “share” them or that I’m an […]
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 […]
Yep, you read that right. Moslems and Jews, breaking fasts and bread together in a Sukkah. JCUA pimps it, ASBI hosts it. There will be services for both faiths, but not at the same time, and of course, for both services, the sexes will remain seperate and heads will be covered as […]