By any other number - December, 2015
"Almost several of you can name numerous (Jewish) significances attached to seven, ten, twelve, thirteen, eighteen, forty, seventy, one hundred twenty, and 1969 (#LetsGoMets)."
Jew's Line is it Anyway? - November, 2015
"Welcome to 'Jew's Line is it Anyway,' the game where, like Midrash, everything is made up and, come Yom Kippur, the points don't matter."
Trick or Torah - October, 2015
"Rabbi Telfon referred to the coincidence of Shabbat and Halloween as Shabbat Shiver -- both for the ghostly nature of the day, and for the changing weather."
Hanukippur - September, 2015
"Isn't it nice in September to think about Hanukah instead? Hanukah, by any other spelling, is a whole lot less effort."
The Unkosher: Going whole hog - August, 2015
"What if you found yourself in a world where the rules of kashrut were replaced? Not secretly with Folger's Crystals, but the exact reverse from what we all know and l... are familiar with."
Here I am - July, 2015
"Proposition: Replace the Hineni prayer with Air Supply's 1981 hit song, 'Here I Am.'"
The Classified Bible - June, 2015
"Seeking strong, able craftsman to build exceptionally large wooden boat, and run zoological expedition."
By any other name - May, 2015
"Judaism has a long history of name changes. Abram became Abraham, Sarai became Sarah... Zimmerman became Dylan."
Ritual logic - April, 2015
"The Vulcan High Council has finally consented to consider whether the Terran Jewish custom of saying Kaddish is logical."
The Ten Amendments - March, 2015
"You shall have no other gods before me. After all, I was here first."
Murder of the first - February, 2015
"There was an earlier incident of possession of an illegal substance, which led to their eviction. But... it had been a long time since they spent their days raising Cain."
21st Century religion - January, 2015
"How can one compare Luke Skywalker to Moses? Easily: Moses was taller. (Also, frankly, both had their moments of whining early on.)"
