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!
If Anne Frank Had a Gun
I am often asked why Jews went like sheep to the slaughter during the Holocaust. The question falsely assumes it was possible to resist, but Jews failed to do so.
In Afghanistan, I Started Praying Before I Traveled
In 2005-2006, I worked in Afghanistan, and to get to work, I had to travel on one of the most dangerous roads in the world. This is when I started praying for safe travels.