God and the Big Bump
As a rabbinical student, I was required to defend anintellectual argument for my personal belief in God, aposition which my instructor thoroughly annihilated witha few well-placed philosophical thrusts.
Galilee Diary: Do It Yourself
Make for yourself a rabbi and acquire for yourself a colleague... -Mishnah Avot 1:6
Galilee Diary: Dogs
by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)
Galilee Diary: Play it again
Congress Delays Decision on Child Nutrition Reauthorization
Krugman: Potential Policy Options are all Terrible, and Such Small Portions
Jonathan Backer is and Eisendrath Legislative Assistant. He is a graduate of Columbia University.
Who can forget the opening lines of Annie Hall, when Woody Allen sums up his attitude towards life?
Who Dat? It's the CSA in NOLA!
Save the Bald Eagles, Save the World
On the first day of my internship, I found out that one of the issues I’d be working on was the Endangered Species Act. There was one problem: when it comes to social justice, I’m in it for the people. Not so much the bald eagles.
Early Childhood Education Centers Are Revolutionizing Jewish Engagement
We’re working to create a shared vision for excellence in early childhood Jewish education and to ensure our ECE centers will thrive in the future. For the past two years, we have worked as part of a team in the greater Denver/ Boulder Jewish community to enhance our early childhood education centers.