Steve Lipman

Steve Lipman is a staff writer for the Jewish Week in New York.

Letter from South Africa

by Steve Lipman | December 7, 2011 in Jewish World

View of Johannesburg, with a Jewish population of 55,000. Photos: Ilan Ossendryver JOHANNESBURG — Shortly before I began a visit to South Africa late last year, my first time in the once-reviled… Read more

Back to the Beit Midrash

by Steve Lipman | May 27, 2011 in Inspiration

On the far left side of the beit midrash, three rows from the back of the room, one seat in at a narrow wooden table, is my makom kavua, my accustomed place to sit. Once a year. With few exceptions,… Read more

The Revival of Jewish Life in Poland

by Steve Lipman | August 11, 2010 in Jewish World

Warsaw Photo: Ahron D. Weiner/www.ahronphoto.com The big news in Krakow’s Jewish community last year didn’t make the news. A young Jewish couple got married. The bride and groom, typical of Polish… Read more

Dr. Laz

by Steve Lipman | August 11, 2010 in People

Photos courtesy of David Lazerson It was David in the lion’s den. Fresh out of graduate school and a few years out of yeshivah, ba’al teshuvah David… Read more

Rick Hodes

by Steve Lipman | August 11, 2010 in People

Dr. Rick Hodes, an Orthodox Jew who lives in Addis Abeba, examines a young Ethiopian boy. Courtesy of JDC From outside, the medical clinic of the Mother Teresa mission in Addis Abeba looks like a… Read more

Rosh Hashanah Thoughts: Absent Neighborhoods, Absent Tears

by Steve Lipman | August 11, 2010 in Opinion

In my childhood, a half-century ago in Buffalo’s North Park neighborhood that served as a passage point between the East Side of Eastern European immigrants (mostly Orthodox) and the Amherst-… Read more

Who is a Ba’al Teshuvah? Thoughts of a Now-Orthodox Adult Raised in a Non-Orthodox Family

by Steve Lipman | December 31, 2009 in Opinion

I grew up in a home where we usually watched Saturday morning cartoons on television, where we often ate chazir, where we sometimes opened presents set under a Christmas tree. In the context of… Read more

The New Face of Jewish Outreach

by Steve Lipman | December 31, 2009 in Outreach

In a typical month in the Houston area, members of the Jewish community study aspects of Jewish law and philosophy with kollel rabbis, Jewish residents of a nearby suburb attend Shabbaton programs and… Read more

Minyan on the Mississippi

by Steve Lipman | December 31, 2009 in Jewish Living

On a recent Friday afternoon, Rabbi Uri Topolosky, the thirty-something-year-old spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Israel in Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans, walked the few blocks from his house… Read more

Achdut on the Field

by Steve Lipman | June 1, 2009 in Inspiration

The umpire didn’t have to call “Game suspended” when a few dozen Orthodox men playing softball on a Catskills field a few years ago heard a child screaming. Down the road, at a Jewish bungalow colony… Read more

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