Redeeming Love – Movie Review from a Jew
Redeeming Love – What is it About I love this movie. When Rotten Tomatoes says critics give this movie a 11/100 and regular people give this movie a 95/100 that’s something you have to...
Category: Jewish Belief
The Story of Uriah Levy
A short play with too much narration – by Moshe Feigin. Narrator 1: Uriah Levy’s great-great-grandfather was the doctor to King John V of Portugal. George Washington attended the wedding of Lecy’s grandparents. Uriah...
Museum of the Bible, Washington, D.C. – Jewish Point of View
The Best Jewish Museum I’ve Ever Seen It’s not actually a place I planned to go. I’d read about it in the news when it first opened – all bad press as I recall....
Getting the Hater Arrested
This article is written with much thanks to the Washington D.C. parks department. 9:30am – 2:00pm: At the Israeli Embassy A good part of my day was already spent at the Israeli embassy in...
Discomfort: Jewish Holidays in a Nutshell
Judaism is about discomfort. What do I mean by that? I mean we want to avoid it’s opposite – no, not “comfort” but “complacency.” The English language sometimes trips us up as words that...
Parental Controls – My “Hashkafa” and What Works for Our Family
Introduction I grew up in the age of BBSes … bulletin board systems. Back in my day, it took about 20 minutes on a 2400 baud modem to download a single 640×480 pixel image...
Peace in Israel – Quick Thoughts
A few days before writing of this article, the United Nations renewed and strengthened it’s call that peace be along the lines of the 1949 armistice lines set in the first war fought by...
Unchosen: Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels – From the Re-chosen
Maybe one day I will get to reading books as they come out – while I was about 60 years too late commenting on Lawrence of Arabia I’m only about ten years behind for...
Why I Choose to Be an Orthodox Jew – Positive and It Fits [Part 3/3]
In part 1 I discussed living for meaning and how that brings one to go towards an infinite purpose beyond our lives and world which is destined to end. In part 2 I discussed...
Why I Choose to Be an Orthodox Jew – The Alternatives [Part 2/3]
In a first post, I wrote I chose to be an Orthodox Jew, focusing mainly on belief in a Creator. How does that get me from Creator –> this particular belief system? In part...