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Today, the documentary “Surfwise” releases, a film about a family with nine children, all-raised in a 24 foot camper, hippie-commune-style, parked along the best California surfing beaches. In the New York Times review, “A Family That Surfs To a Beat: Its Own,” reviewer Manohla Dargis makes the movie sound worth seeing. Perhaps most interesting of…

For me, it’s always been hard to picture the divine. Yeah, in Jewish tradition, there’s the story of Jacob wrestling hand-to-hand with a purported angel in the Book of Genesis. And, in Islam, the angel Gabriel visits Mohammed on more than one occasion, flying with him to Jerusalem, discussing life with him, and delivering the…

In a movie, whenever there’s a song associated with Israel or Jews, it’s automatically “Hava Nagila,” and I’m here to tell you it’s enough already. (It’s also enough with the Manischewitz jokes, but we’ll get to that at some future point…) Israel is a center of technology and medical breakthroughs, among other contributions to world…

From this Sunday’s (May 11th, 2008) episode, “Stand Up: Muslim-American Comics Come of Age,” part of the “America at a Crossroads” series on PBS:

Maysoon Zayid wants Dean Obeidallah to run for U.S. president–it’s a personal campaign for her. And if he were to run, he’d have my vote. And if not president, I’d nominate him for hottest (as in funny!) comic out there. Just listen to his bit on what Arab Americans get in lieu of a special…

Several years ago, I contributed a piece about the best small-screen mothers on American television to Beliefnet blogger Therese Borchard’s delightful book “I Love Being a Mom.” For the book, I tried to think of characters, who not only set the bar for television motherhood, but also TV moms who accurately reflected the times. So…

Newsweek reports this week that Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama share more than a wish to see him be president: Oprah attended Obama’s church when she first moved to Chicago, and both called the troublesome Rev. Jeremiah Wright their pastor. The difference is Oprah got out while the getting was good.

On their new release, “When Angels and Serpents Dance,” P.O.D. is in a tight spot: they’ve got a lot of people to please, and whatever they do is gonna piss somebody off. Having achieved a huge degree of success in the Christian rock ghetto and pop-culture platforms like Ozzfest and MTV, P.O.D. crossed a lot…

Here we are at the final chapter and the final class, Gang! On Monday night, the Oprah and Eckhart “A New Earth” web event concluded with a special 2-hour finale. That class, based on Chapter 10 “A New Earth,” is now available for viewing at Oprah.com or here at Beliefnet. Oprah started off the class…

There have been several Fridays home this past semester that have left me watching television all evening, and my newfound interest in “Ghost Whisperer” which is followed up by “Moonlight” has had me pulling a CBS all-nighter and watching “Numb3rs” which airs every week at 10 p.m. Numb3rs is basically a “Bones”-like procedural: every week…
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