Moses received the Torah on Sinai and handed it down to Joshua, and Joshua to the Elders, and the Elders to the Prophets, and the Prophets handed it down to the Men of the Great Assembly. They said three things: Be deliberate in judgment, raise up many disciples, and make a fence around […]
Four Covenants
1. Verbal: Go forth, says God to Abraham; be a blessing in the land I will show you. (Genesis 12)
2. Animals in pieces: offer up the living creatures and I will reward you with life and land. (Genesis 15)
3. Circumcision: you will not be like others and will […]
It must be true: it’s in the New York Times!
The Independent Minyanim hit the big time with the journalistic attention they deserve.
And Steven Cohen sums it up best when he says that IF in the 1980s you train Jews in day schools and make them empowered, then when they reach adulthood, they will do […]
Well, at least Coke did a better job than Bud in responding to the Dream for Darfur letter.
Here’s Coca-Cola’s official word:
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Thank you for contacting The Coca-Cola Company. We appreciate the opportunity to respond.
The Coca-Cola Company has been sponsoring the Olympic Games since 1928 and believes that the ideals of the Olympic Movement of building […]
Dream for Darfur made the Wall Street Journal yesterday (mazel tov, Jill Savitt!), just as my inbox got a letter from Anheuser-Busch, explaining why they won’t honor any boycott of China in the 2008 Olympics–China being one of the Sudan’s greatest economic enablers.
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Here’s the letter:
Dear Rabbi Bachman,
Thank you for contacting Anheuser-Busch.
For nearly 25 […]
A really great meeting last night to talk about a neighborhood response to our friends at Old First.
Rev Dan Meeter and I hosted a meeting with participation from the Deputy Commissioners of the New York City Department of Homeless Services (George Nashak), the Assistant Commissioner of DHS (Jody Rudin), a member of CBE, […]
One of the reasons I enjoy reading about architecture is because of the following sentences, this pulled from Nicolai Ouroussoff’s review of the new NYTIMES Building on 8th Avenue.
Architecturally, however, The New York Times Building owes its greatest debt to postwar landmarks like Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s Lever House or Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram […]
Jacob happens upon a place in this week’s portion, an event that the rabbis attribute to a kind of spiritually intentional happenstance. Not quite beshert but a sense of cosmic connectedness to what is going on around you–and if you’re dim enough to not notice it, well, it can rise up on knock you […]
A panel at the UJC General Assembly yielded a pretty intelligent discussion among a few of the Jewish community’s young innovators–Dan Sieradski, Aaron Bisman, Daniel Septimus and others. Very much worth a read.
Most interesting to me was Aaron’s comment about peoplehood:
“The age of peoplehood is over. If peoplehood means that we feel a connection […]
Not since Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor (and Andrew Bergman) wrote Blazing Saddles has the Black-Jewish collaboration in Hollywood been as sharp, hilarious, and incisive as this season’s Larry David, culminating in last night’s episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
The season ending finale, “The Bat Mitzvah,” was the pinnacle of Larry David’s exploration of the African […]