Why Is It So Hard to Get Used to a Woman Wearing a Tallit?
Woman praying with a tallit
When I was a kid, we had a famous riddle that I heard/told dozens of times. It involved a man and his son who were in a car accident. The man dies instantly, and the son is rushed to the hospital. The surgeon is about to operate on the boy, and suddenly exclaims, “I can’t operate on this boy. He’s my son.”
Sarah Silverman and Goldie Hawn to Get Hollywood Walk of Fame Stars
Sarah Silverman
Comedian Sarah Silverman, actor Jeffrey Tambor, actress Goldie Hawn, Israeli-American media mogul Haim Saban, and actor George Segal are all getting their own stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Reform Rabbi Makes Fresh Push for Mixed Prayer at Western Wall
JERUSALEM — The head of the U.S. Reform movement led egalitarian prayers at the Western Wall plaza.
That Time a Jewess Joined the Daughters of the American Revolution
Abigail Minis was a widow, in her eighties and Jewish, but that didn’t stop her from doing her part to fight the British during the Revolutionary War. She put her skills and resources as an innkeeper to use and paid for food for soldiers fighting for American independence in 1779 in Savannah, Georgia.
‘Orange Is the New Black’ Season 4 Brings Deeper Issues — but Less Passion
I’ll admit, I’m an “Orange is the New Black” crier. No, “sobber” is probably more accurate. I blubbered through the bittersweet second season finale, hot tears raining down my cheeks as ball-busting Miss Rosa, in a final bid for freedom before she succumbs to cancer, mows down the villainous Vee in a stolen prison van and whizzes off triumphantly to the strum of “Don’t Fear the Reaper.”
