How Do You Jew

Category: history

  • Blast from the past: Denis Leary riffing on the Mel Gibson DUI

    Thank you to Phyllis & Joel for reminding me of this gem: Back in July of 2006, Mel Gibson was famously arrested for drunk driving, and exercised his constitutionally protected right to free speech by unleashing a tirade blaming Jews for, among other things, being responsible for all the wars in the world. You can…

  • The origin of this domain name

    When I first started posting here in April 2006, I put up some divrei Torah I’d delivered over the last few years, and then I very briefly talked about why I got the domain and how I planned to start podcasting “soon.” While I haven’t accomplished that last task, I’m still working on it, and…

  • Parenting, literally and figuratively.

    Parenting is hard. I’m not complaining, mind you, just stating a fact. Allow me to illustrate with two anecdotes. Having a fever of 102°F sucks. Being less than 13 months old with a fever of 102°F sucks a couple of ways. First, you have no idea why you feel so crappy; you have no life…

  • It’s the Irony, Stupid: Hospitality and Spirituality in the Middle East, Then and Now

    When I started writing this (Sunday, July 15 or thereabouts) I didn’t know where it was going, so I didn’t post it. It took about a week for the realization to sink in that the thing that brought these two subjects into relief for me was the irony and sadness over the powerful positive connotations…

  • Dig this archaeological news from Israel

    Herod’s tomb and grave found at Herodium The Hebrew University of Jerusalem announced Monday night that it has uncovered the grave and tomb of King Herod, who ruled Judea for the Roman empire from circa 37 BCE. … The tomb was discovered by Hebrew University Professor Ehud Netzer, who is considered one of the leading…

  • Nancy Pelosi comes from good stock.

    The JPost tells us about Pelosi’s father and the Holocaust. I look forward to seeing good things from her and her colleagues in terms of foreign policy this term.

  • Jewish Education, the Simpsons Way

    Thanks to Counting the Homer, I found out that this year’s Simpsons Treehouse of Horror (the Halloween special show) included this segment: