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Holiday reading list, 5775
Rocky Mountain JewOct 03, 2014
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’
Rocky Mountain JewOct 04, 2013
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
Rocky Mountain JewSep 18, 2013
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
Rocky Mountain JewAug 26, 2011
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
Rocky Mountain JewMay 05, 2009
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 JewMar 06, 2009
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
Rocky Mountain JewFeb 27, 2009
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
Shana GoldbergDec 26, 2008
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
Shana GoldbergOct 16, 2008
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...