Nigel Savage
By Nigel Savage
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Opinion The Super Important November 8 Vote That Nobody’s Talking About
On November 8, all eyes are on the presidential election. To many of us it feels like the most consequential choice, with the starkest consequences, of any in our lifetime. As the CEO of a non-profit, I have no official view on our choice, other than the hope that Americans vote wisely. But there is…
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Life Remembering Bonna Haberman
I first met Bonna in London in late 1985. She and Shmuel and Tiferet were living on the attic floor of an old house in Hampstead while she finished her Phd. I had never met a couple like Bonna and Shmuel before. They moved to their own beat. They were quirky, charming, funny, eclectic. I…
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Opinion Bridging Divide Between Universal and Parochial Jews
I’ve been thinking about two larger stories that inform Jewish life; about the extent to which those two stories seem to overlap less and less — and whether there is anything we can or should do about this. The key challenge for the American Jewish community in 2015 is this gap that has opened up…
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Opinion Time for Jewish Evangelizing
If we’re serious about renewing Jewish life in the future, we must confront the challenge of evangelizing for Jewish tradition in public space. One of the reasons that the tension between the tribal and the universal in Jewish life isn’t addressed directly is because most Jews lack confidence in their knowledge of Jewish tradition to…
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News Beyond Bal Tashchit
As we make plans to celebrate Earth Day 2011, we worry about radiation from a crippled nuclear plant in Japan. We face air pollution, species extinction, climate change. Major fish stocks are down 90%. And, more parochially, the Jewish community faces extraordinary stress and uncertainty. The federation system and many of our synagogues have lost…
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Food Balancing Food Traditions at Your Tu B’Shvat Seder
Tonight, Jan 19th, there’ll be a full moon in the sky: the full moon of the Hebrew month Shvat. The indigenous Israelites from whom we descend celebrated this as the start of the year for the natural world. Like lots of elements of Jewish tradition, we never forgot it, even as its meaning has changed…
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Books 30 Days, 30 Texts: ‘On Being a Jewish Feminist’
In celebration of Jewish Book Month, The Arty Semite is partnering with the Jewish Education Service of North America (JESNA) and the Jewish Book Council to present “30 Days, 30 Texts,” a series of reflections by community leaders on the books that influenced their Jewish journeys. Today, Nigel Savage writes about “On Being a Jewish…
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