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Holiday reading list, 5775

We’ve all heard that classic joke aptly describing the Jewish holidays: You eat, you pray, then you eat some more. But what if you’re full? Or you need a break...

‘I am Noah after the flood’

Have you had a chance to pick up any of the books from our holiday reading list, published here on Rocky Mountain Jew? One of the aspects we most enjoyed […]

Holiday reading list

Call us crazy, but sometimes we enjoy these three-day yontifs. There’s something almost indulgent in three days stretching before you, with very little on the agenda...

The Frozen Rabbi, thawed

What happens when a cryogenically preserved rabbi is discovered by a randy fifteen year old, and then subsequently defrosted when a freak electric storm hits suburban...

Michael Chabon’s Yiddish dictionary

Yiddish is alive and well.* Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union revives the in-danger-of-dying language in a most creative way: the author...

Links to the world

Rocky Mountain Jew presents its weekly round of Jewish-related stories from around the globe. In Russia, the chief rabbi Berel Lazar discusses Putin, the World Economic...

RM Jew links you to the world

Starting today, we’re introducing a new feature on Rocky Mountain Jew – a weekly “round-up” of Jewish-related articles we’ve across over...

Pile of books

As I’ve mentioned in earlier entries, a holiday highlight for me is settling in with the ever-growing pile of books I’ve accumulated, well, since the last...

Mid-holiday ruminations

Though in theory holidays are a time of celebration, it’s a universally accepted fact that in reality they can also be quite stressful. The most common and...