You've probably all heard by now that legendary poet/musician/downtown icon Lou Reed has passed away.  Others will be praising and rem...

Can Minimal Jewish Education Be Made Viable?  by Leon A. Jick (from The Education of American Jewish Teachers , a volume of essays on th...

Welcome to another installment of my series on out of print Jewish records. I'm working my way through a gorgeous stack of records gifte...

This was supposed to be a post about serious Yiddish music . The idea was to continue my From the Back Wall series on out of print Jewish...

Rachel Gross has an excellent piece on the Pew survey t oday in Religion and Politics. She makes the point, as others have, that the surv...

"... we say, and we say it boldly but sincerely, that you cannot build either healthy Jews or Jewesses unless you permeate the youth wi...

"Public opinion surveys some years ago indicated that hardly 18% of American Jews attended religious services at least once a month....

Are you still interested in talking about this Pew report on American Jewry?  Yeah?  Good, me too. Let me bring your attention to an ex...

Spent the last few days reading and writing about the latest Pew report on American Jewry. The report does a spectacularly bad job at captu...

The Pew Trust recently released a huge survey of the American Jewish population . The Pew study is important because a major Jewish populat...