Steve Lipman

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Apr 27, 2025, 4:34 AM

Are Jews, anti-Semites, more united than they realize?

If you want to see the Shechinah in this world, then occupy yourself with Torat Eretz Yisroel. Shochar Tov, Tehillim 105 Do Jews, and the haters of Jews, share a common -- probably unconscious and not-realized -- by either party--...

Apr 15, 2025, 8:41 AM

Playing kindness forward — with a special family seder

As a veteran journalist, I have found that some articles are difficult to write, especially in the genre of personal essays, while others virtually write themselves. This blog entry fits into the second category. It’s about history repeating itself. Or, as...

Apr 4, 2025, 6:08 PM

A Passover lesson from some uninvited flowers

When had my sister developed a green thumb? That was a question I asked myself one day when visiting my sister in a Houston suburb last year. Looking out the back window of her ranch house, I noticed in the backyard...

Mar 30, 2025, 4:59 AM

African-American culture gives appreciation for Jewish names, language and dress

What’s a good way to get in the mood for Pesach? I have three suggestions. Consider: “Ice-T.” “Corn rows.” And “Ain’t.” Those three are, of course, prominent features of current African-American culture. Ice-T is the non de plume of Tracy Lauren Marrow, a popular rap-hip...

Mar 12, 2025, 10:19 AM

Mohn o’ Mohn! Nostalgia for a (poppy)seedy Purim celebration.

Growing up Jewish in Buffalo more than a half-century ago meant only one source of kosher baked goods for most members of the city’s small Jewish community– Kaufman’s Bakery. It was a popular, long-established, family-owned business that trucked its delicious...

Mar 10, 2025, 11:54 AM

Where did we go wrong?

“Where did we go wrong?” This is a question that many Jewish parents have asked themselves -- about how their children were raised and about how their children turned out -- for several generations. First, it was about their sons and...

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About Me

Staff writer, Jewish Week, 1983-2020. Author, "Laughter in Hell: The Use of Humor in the Holocaust" (Jason Aronson, 1991) Author, "Common Ground," the views of a Conservative, Orthodox and Reform rabbi on the weekly Torah parshah, (Jason Aronson, 1998)