• The Annoying Jewish Coworker o…

    The Annoying Jewish Coworker on Facebook. Yeah, I friended her. ‎‎ Annoying Jewish Coworker: YOUR TOTAL BS.... I'm the LAST PERSON to NOT BE Trusted with other people's things ‎‎ Me: okay. just relaying his msg (manager asked her to do something and I hyped it up to make her worry). ‎‎AJC: he…
  • A Book and a Chat with Debra Winegarten

    You can always tell how good and interesting a show is, by how quickly the time goes by when your hosting one, normally I am fairly lucky and the thirty minutes just seems to fly by, today was one of those shows. It seems I had just started chatting with my guest Debra Winegarten, when I checked the…
  • A Book and a Chat with Deby Eisenberg

    Deby Eisenberg, is my guest on today’s “A Book and a Chat”. She is the leader of an established Chicago area Book Club, a former English teacher and journalist, loves literary research, art, architecture, Jewish history, and travel in the United States and Europe. You mix all of those together and y…
  • Annoying Jewish Coworker on Wh…

    Annoying Jewish Coworker on White Castle. Last month, the office decided to treat their employees with a $100 stipend to purchase whatever they wanted to celebrate the holidays at work. My idea of purchasing cheap liquor was quickly tossed out the window. But my second suggestion was quickly acknow…
  • Chanukah-Celebrating TV Characters

    The holidays are a little bittersweet for me because I always feel like the lonely Jew on Christmas. Old Bing Crosby movies and new Mariah Carey Christmas albums seem to follow me year after year, but no one ever wants to play dreidel with me. Don't get me wrong, I love Christmas more than a girl…
  • 6 Awesome (And Surprising) Jewish Celebs

    We all know that Christmas is on its way, but here's a little nugget for us Jewish Lovelies. We may be a tiny percent of the population, but there are certainly a number of folks we can brag about lighting the menorah with! Hypothetically, of course. Most of the big names are pretty well publicized…
  • The Countdown

    The Countdown Key Scriptures:“Surely I come quickly!”– Revelation 22.20 Yahoo! users have likely seen it, and even may be following it. It is the Movie Countdown: The Twilight Saga – Breaking Dawn part I (see www.yahoo.com). This clock is counting down the days, hours, minutes, and seconds unt…
  • Reviving Compassion

    The Rev. Michael Sniffen sat in a small circle surrounded by five of his church members, leaning forward in a black plastic chair with a maroon padded seat, smiling and nodding, engaged in conversation. His voice echoed throughout the church, painted shades of amber and blue-green, and covered by st…
  • A Few Did-You-Knows About the Bible

    Did you know... The writings of scripture were not compiled until recently in history and so the practice of encountering scripture was communal? People gathered together, had one person read from a scroll -- be it large or small due to it being a "book" or letter -- and the rest of the community of…