ClimateGate: Are You Kidding Me?

Joshua Keyak, 12.04.2009

Political science student at Yeshiva University and PresenTense '09 Greening Fellow

The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) just sent out an email that had an article from The Wall Street Journal promoting about what has been comically ...

Plan to Entertain This Holiday Season

Steve Poses, 12.04.2009

Steve Poses is author of At Home: A Caterer's Guide to Cooking and Entertaining

If you are a regular here, you may know that I have a mission to increase home entertaining nationally by 10%. Really. If you are new to my blog, no...

An Introduction to Kabbalah Part 6: The Sefirot, or, 'If Everything is God, how come it doesn't look that way?'

Jay Michaelson, 12.04.2009

Columnist, activist and author of "Everything is God: The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism"

In the first five articles in this series, we've explored some of the basic questions of Kabbalah. Beginning this week, we shift gears, digging into some core concepts and exploring them in a bit more depth.

How To Buy Holiday Gifts For Kids

Delia Lloyd, 12.03.2009

Delia Lloyd is an American writer based in London. Her work has appeared in The International Herald ...

When I scanned my Facebook account this morning, one friend talked about how much she hates Christmas shopping; I was so stressed out that I bought all my presents in November.

White House Chanukah Blues

Ira Forman, 12.03.2009

CEO of the National Jewish Democratic Council

It's time to focus on what one GOP operative told me is the most important issue of the year for any Jewish organization in Washington, DC ... who gets to watch the lighting of the chanukia at the Obama's.

Holocausts, Miracles And Mysticism

Rabbi David Wolpe, 12.03.2009

Rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles

Are books that influential? Well remember, if someone had not written the story in the book of Maccabees, you wouldn't be lighting those candles.

How To Green Your Holiday Meal

Avital Binshtock, 11.26.2009

SIERRA magazine's lifestyle editor and editor of the Sierra Club's Green Life blog.

Working up a menu for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, or another upcoming holiday? Here are three tips to help you be more environmentally responsible while planning that feast.

An American Arab Thanksgiving

Ray Hanania, 11.25.2009

Chicagoland political columnist, consultant, author, standup comedian and radio talkshow host

Food has a special place in our hearts as Arabs, so Thanksgiving was the American holiday we most loved. Food symbolizes the essence of freedom, the ability to feed your family without fear.

Do Whateveryouwannukah? Why I Won't Be Fa-la-la-la-la-ing In To The Gap This Holiday Season (VIDEO)

Cathleen Falsani, 11.24.2009

Chicago Sun-Times columnist and author

I'm all for inclusiveness and multiculturalism, as much as I am for inexpensive cotton T-shirts and reindeer-themed boxer shorts. But this year's Gap "holiday" ad campaign just rubs me the wrong way.

Happy Thanksgiving! This Year It Is No Longer Humiliating To Be Explaining Your Unemployment Around the Thanksgiving Table!

Stephen Viscusi, 11.25.2009

America's Workplace Guru

Losing your job is dreadful, no matter what the reason. In this journalist's mind, it is still better than health issues, divorce, or death -- but t...

Irrational Exuberance in Anti-Obama Hatred

Aaron Keyak, 11.20.2009

Press Secretary, National Jewish Democratic Council

The use of swastikas, photos of dead Holocaust victims, and anti-Semitic epithets should have no place in any event or venue sponsored or promoted on either side of the partisan divide.

My Father's Paradise: A Memoir About a Lost Jewish World

Alex Remington, 11.18.2009

Pop culture lover and Yahoo Sports baseball blogger

I recently read Ariel Sabar's memoir My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, which was published last year. It begi...

The Philip Roth Reader: Love Means Always Having to Say You're Sorry

Karen Stabiner, 11.17.2009

I'll endure a dollop of political incorrectness for the sake of an insanely smart story; in this post-feminist world, I'm just that confident.

Joe Lieberman, Twitter, the New Yorker, Jews, New Orleans, Dan Baum and Me

Anne Z. Boxer, 11.16.2009

Boulder writer

If any of you can think of that word or phrase that is less dramatic than "a perfect storm" but more resonant than "coincidence" please let me know.

Reflections of a Jewish Gay Rights Advocate on Visiting the Martin Luther King, Jr, Museum: An Open Letter to Ruben Diaz, Sr., and other Latino and African-American Opponents of Gay Rights

Jay Michaelson, 11.15.2009

Columnist, activist and author of "Everything is God: The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism"

On a trip to Atlanta this week, amid the same-sex marriage debate in my home state of New York , I had an opportunity to visit the Martin Luther King,...

Stage Door: Wolves at the Window, Circumcise Me, Forbidden Broadway

Fern Siegel, 11.16.2009

Deputy Editor, MediaPost

Ten Saki short stories are adapted for the stage in the piercingly funny Wolves at the Window. Smartly rendered and acted, Wolves, running through Dec. 6, is a gem.

The British Supreme Court and the "Jewish Question"

Eric Lurio, 11.12.2009

Artist, writer, adventurer!

The "Who is a Jew?" question is a thorny one, which has been bedeviling Israel since it's inception.

The Charter For Compassion: Read, Affirm, Share

Amy Novogratz, 11.12.2009

Director of the TED Prize, an initiative of the TED Conference.

Today, the culmination of more than a year's work was unveiled as the Charter for Compassion was officially introduced in Washington, D.C. Read the Charter and join people around the world in affirming it.

A Word for the Gifting Season

Amy Hungerford, 11.11.2009

Professor of English, Yale University

Pretension wrapped in a noun wrapped in a gerund: that's what gifting is. This holiday season, give the gift that keeps giving: something nice you picked yourself, for a particular person.

The British Dare to Determine Who Is a Jew

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, 11.10.2009

Author of Shalom in the Home

The chutzpa of British judges. They are trying to alter the identity requirements of a three-and-half thousand year old faith that is the precursor of Christianity.

Examining Peace, Remembering Rabin: Some Reflections on the J-Street Conference

Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater, 11.09.2009

Spiritual leader of the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center in Pasadena, California

To water the seeds of peace, we need to recognize the humanity on all sides of this conflict and work to create a framework of peace that acknowledges the truths of two distinct narratives.