Megan Phelps Roper was on the Sam Harris podcast to talk about her recently released book Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church. My favorite part? Where she talks about...
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TJS S3 Interlude: Kingdom or client state
Sukkot is a time to sit in the Sukkah and reflect, so here are a few thoughts from my Sukkah. This is an exploration of what it means for the state of Israel to be a kingdom and and it what means to...
Yom Kippur: Some Fave Online Live Webcasts 5780
For those not able to get to a synagogue physically, or for those who fear a scene like that in the 1939 Yiddish film “Overture to Glory,” below are some live webcasts of services that...
JewliciousReads: Four Cookbooks and a Numeral
As Erev Yom Kippur approaches, my thoughts are focused on repentence and cookbooks. Four new ones hit the shelves in the past few weeks. They include: SABABA Fresh, Sunny Flavors From My Israeli...
Unfollow on Good Morning America
The first time Megan Phelps Roper and I interacted was just before Yom Kippur in 2009. In a now famous tweet she spoke about Judaism’s “dead rote rituals” and chided me for...
TJS S3 Interlude: 5780 A New Horizon
The High Holy Days are also know as the Days of Awe which can be awesome, or awful. Here is a look at how to tie the work of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot together into an approach to building...