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The ubiquitous social networking website, Facebook, has recently gotten some negative press. Users who live in the disputed West Bank were upset to discover that Facebook’s software (which can identify a user’s location by their town name or zip code) had listed them as living in Palestine. Towns in the West Bank, such as Hebron,…

Did you see the movie “Juno” (the Oscar-nominated film about a pregnant teenager) and wonder in the back of your head how the movie would have been different if the title character had been Jewish? Well, wonder no more. This video, directed by Steven Levinson, finally answers that important question.

Erykah Badu has always been a mystery. From the 1997 release of “Baduizm,” she blazed the trail for neo-soul as a genre, but she also brought with her a raw spirituality that made her god no particular god. It was an untouchable spirituality so firmly planted that it seemed like Badu had created a neo-spirituality—Baduizm—that…

Alana Newhouse, a journalist who writes frequently for the New York Times, writes about having to step up her traveling–and flying–lately in her article “At 36,000 Feet, Closer to God.” A nervous flyer, she talks about how a Jewish prayer–the “Wayfarer’s Prayer” that she learned long ago at the Orthodox yeshiva where she went to…

Chris Sligh finished in tenth place on the sixth season of “American Idol.” Chris’ humor and unique style, along with his choice to sing songs by Christian bands like Mute Math and dc Talk, made him one of the most popular contestants in the show’s history. After going on the “Idol” summer tour, Chris signed…

“I’ve always loved coloring eggs and having Easter egg hunts with my kids. Religiously, the notion of resurrection and being reborn is very meaningful to me. After the dark days of Lent, Easter is a time of hope!” says Danielle Steel on her website. Danielle Fernande Dominique Schuelein-Steel is one of the best-selling authors in…

I can’t imagine anyone admiring “Gilmore Girls” co-creator Amy Sherman-Palladino’s writing more than I do. I still feel the loss of visiting Stars Hollow a year after it has gone off the air. Tonight, Fox is bringing Sherman-Palladino and her producer husband Daniel Palladino back to primetime with a sitcom, “The Return of Jezebel James.”…

Harry Potter fans still mourning over the end of the book series can rejoice: They’ll be treated to an extra film version of the “The Deathly Hallows.” Even though the first six books were condensed on film, the seventh book will be (seemingly) filmed in its entirety and then split into two. CNN.com quoted producer…

Remember back in the late 90s and early 2000s when you couldn’t flip open a lifestyle section or magazine without seeing at least one article about outrageous Bar and Bat Mitvahs? The progenitor of the MTV “My Super Sweet Sixteen”-style shindig, these “Bash Mitzvahs,” as New York Magazine dubbed them in 1998, involved extravagant themes,…

Certainly one of the tenets of my day-to-day spiritual walk is the firm belief that whatever is done in darkness will eventually come to light. So while I am not into celebrity gossiping or tabloid-mongering, I had to smile for just a moment when I read on Page Six of the New York Post the…
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