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Profile: Josh Neuman
It might raise an eyebrow or two that Josh Neuman, former editor and publisher of Heeb magazine — the irreverent, youth-oriented Jewish magazine that shut down its print operations in 2010 — is now in charge of editorial content at GOOD, a multiplatform media outlet dedicated to helping “people who give a damn” do well by doing good.
Everything is easier than doing good
Some thoughts for Rosh Hashanah: If we took a vote on what trait we human beings most value, goodness would undoubtedly win. Certainly goodness is the trait that we most want everyone else to possess. But if we say we value goodness above everything else — and surely Judaism does — why aren\’t there more good people? A big reason is that it is easier to value other things — including, and especially, positive things — more than goodness. So it\’s much easier to be just about anything rather than good. It’s easier to be religious than to be good.
Kashrut and Mindfulness: Savoring Fresh, Local Fare at La Seine
This is a story about a dream afternoon I spent at La Seine, where chef Alex Reznik is cooking seasonal, farm-to-table, California-Asian … kosher food.
On-screen morality plays illuminate Holocaust choices
World War II and the Holocaust ended more than 60 years ago, but the subject\’s fascination for filmmakers as the ultimate moral testing ground for participants on both sides only intensifies with the passage of time.
The seminar of a lifetime
Who knew that 20 teenagers from Los Angeles could help make a difference in the world?
Shalom Auslander is my failure
This doesn\’t answer my questions. It doesn\’t staunch my tears. I don\’t sleep better. I don\’t justify terrible things when they happen to others, and I don\’t know why they don\’t happen to me. But I know that just as surely as there is inexplicable evil in the world, there is inexplicable good, as well. It\’s something to put on the other side of the scale, something to attribute to a good God.
Originality trumps repetition in the holiday songs battle
I will be frank. I\’m tired of hearing the same holiday songs over and over. So the best Chanukah present I\’ve received this year is a pile of Chanukah-themed CDs with lots of new holiday songs, many of them quite good.
What are you thinking about this Rosh Hashanah?
Rosh Hashanah resolutions.