Bizarro day. First, I’m in the airport in Newark at the gate getting ready to board the plane to New Orleans and Kareem Abdul Jabar walks up behind me, slips into the elite access lane and then ducks his head under the door and heads to the plane, bent over. Then I’m at Bon Temps Roule seeing the always amazing Soul Rebels and Mos Def walks beside me, gently pushing my friend out of the way to get closer to…
This event has been rescheduled for tomorrow night — Tuesday, March 2nd – come on down! Rabbi Brenner to speak at Jewish Federation eventCampaign kickoff is Feb. 21One of the nation’s most influential rabbis will speak at the Jewish Federation of Greater Charlotte’s 2010 campaign kickoff event at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 21 at Temple Israel.Rabbi Daniel Brenner, executive director of BirthrighBy Joe MarusakPosted: Monday, Feb. 08, 2010 One of the nation’s most influential rabbis will speak at the Jewish Federation’s…
My father-in-law, Dr. Mel Silberman was one of the most amazing men I have ever met. He passed away this past Shabbat, after a thirteen year battle with cancer. We have posted eulogies and other memories at Remembering Mel
Sorry folks, this header has nothing to do with the late 70s Gay club scene. Machismo, though, is a great topic. I just crafted a piece for the New Jersey Jewish News. “Professor Daniel Boyarin’s 1997 work Unheroic Conduct: the Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man was the counter-text to the Zionist typology of the new Jewish man as farm laborer and warrior. Boyarin sparked a new intellectual movement which sought instead to preserve and reinvent…
thanks to the fine archivists over at NYU, someday a researcher might stumble upon some of my scribbles. They have 23 of my essays up on this page. And a ton of searchable other stuff. Wow. Go BJPA!
A Jewish Star: Nissen Brenenson from COLlive.com on Vimeo. This right here folks is my cousin Nissen Brenenson singing his heart out. Nissen is a Chabad rabbi and is the educational director of the Jewish Childrens’ Museum. I’ve seen him rock out at a Karaoke bar in the basement of a Days Inn. This is a bit more polished and sans boa.
Grenade-throwing days are recalled in this sweet write-up. 🙂 THE MAIN EVENT OF THE 2010 ANNUAL CAMPAIGNFeaturing Rabbi Daniel Brenner The Jewish Federation’s 2010 Annual Campaign will officially kick-off on Sunday, February 21, 2010 during The Main Event featuring special guest speaker Rabbi Daniel Brenner, Executive Director of Birthright Israel Next, who was recently named by Newsweek Magazine as one of the 50 most influential rabbis in America. Brenner’s speech entitled “Going Retro? The Next Generation’s Search for Jewish Authenticity”…
Since it has now been a whopping thirteen years since I lived in Israel, I’m starting to forget words…but now, thanks to some of my fine co-workers I am learning anew. If you Text the word HEBREW to 41411 you get a free Hebrew word (and translation of that word) in your box each day (or you can control the frequency if you want to learn quickly.) It is a nice way to keep the language in the parts of…
Khazaria Flashback That morningWe first woke up as Jews.Drank Turkish coffee.Started complaining. The King, Jewish?This will not turn out well. Like schoolchildren they spoke to us.Fringes.Little boxes. the joy of learning a new languagea room in the brain we didn’t know was there. fires engulfed our old gods.sacrificial flames for the big new one.but we winked across the aislebackup plan under the floorboards. We have been chosenThe grey beards tell usAnd our homeland lies in ruinsAnd our temple desecratedBut we…
Home? Hone? I recently read the headline on Debka… Al Qaeda homes in on Germany as its next European target I scratched my head. Home in? Isn’t it “hone in” ? Time for some sleuthing…and …it turns out that there is a fascinating little history of the term.