“My problem with goals is that they are limiting”
My problem with goals is that they are limiting. Granted, if you focus on...
“Main Street requires shoppers who don’t really care about low prices. The dream of Main Street may be populist, but the reality is elitist”
It’s worth noting that the idealized Main Street is not a myth in some...
“Which brand of Judaism has the most credibility on which topic? How did you know?”
I asked the new president of a growing synagogue about their brand. “Young couples...
“The notion that the seven blood-free days are an undue stringency imposed by the Rabbis is a commonplace of contemporary halakhic discussion among liberal Orthodox and non-Orthodox feminist Jews who discuss the laws of nidah…”
The notion that the seven blood-free days are an undue stringency imposed by the...
“The Reinheitsgebot…had less to do with keeping peasants from poisoning themselves…than with controlling the hops and barley crops”
Beer is less ancient than wine, McGovern went on to say, because it requires...
“…if ancient Israel did not drink beer, their abstention was unique in the entire ancient Near East”
…the Hebrew Bible records barley (שְׂעֺרָה) as one of the most abundant and important...
“By virtue of their unvarnished nature, leaks have evolved into the realest of facts”
In politics, the word “leak” conjures whistle-blowing and heroism or villainy and subterfuge, depending...
“Schools that are unbranded or poorly branded often resort to what they think their target wants”
Lakewood Yeshiva is the Harvard of rabbinical schools. The Heschel School is pluralistic. Yeshiva...
“To label something ‘un-American’ is to imagine America as it should have been or as it might yet be but not as it ever was”
On the surface, “un-American” implies consensus: It carries a punch only when everybody agrees...
“The contrast between wine culture of Palestine and beer culture of Babylonia is well documented in the Talmud…”
One of the important distinctions between the diet of Graeco-Roman Palestine and Babylonia was...