About Jennie Rivlin Roberts

Founder of ModernTribe.com. Inventor of No Limit Texas Dreidel. Owner of PopJudaica.com. ModernTribe_Jew on Twitter. Industrial & Organizational psychologist. Georgia Tech grad. Native Atlantan! Love Jewcy.

The Jewcy Fitness Plan: Jennie & Patrick Do Chai Bo

The Jewcy Fitness Plan: Jennie & Patrick Do Chai Bo
By Jennie Rivlin Roberts November 16, 2010

This is week three of Jennie & Patrick’s fitness journal for your viewing pleasure. Not only will they be reporting the embarrassing details of their physical disrepair, but, like all good Jewish professionals should, they’ll be making this a Jewish … Read More

The Jewcy Fitness Plan: Jennie & Patrick Do Kabbalah Yoga

By Jennie Rivlin Roberts October 28, 2010

This is week two of Jennie & Patrick’s fitness journal for your viewing pleasure. Not only will they be reporting the embarrassing details of their physical disrepair, but, like all good Jewish professionals should, they’ll be making this a Jewish … Read More

The Jewcy Fitness Plan: Patrick & Jennie Get in Shape

By Jennie Rivlin Roberts October 19, 2010

Over the next several weeks Jennie & Patrick will be getting fit for your viewing pleasure. Not only will they be reporting the embarrassing details of their physical disrepair, but, like all good Jewish professionals should, they’ll be making this … Read More

Salon Mexico City: Bringing You Judean Condoms & New Expressions of Jewish Culture

By Jennie Rivlin Roberts June 15, 2010

"Yo Quiero Taco Bell."  Not exactly the coolest way to start a conversation with a hot Mexican Jew, but it was all I needed to get things going with Alan Grabinksy at this past February’s LimmudLA. By the time I … Read More

Haggadahs for the Wise, Wicked, Simple, and Those Who Don’t Know How To Ask

By Jennie Rivlin Roberts March 24, 2010

As the owner of ModernTribe, I’m sent many Haggadahs to review and consider. Truly, I have more than two dozen versions scattered on bookshelves throughout my house. Once hopeful that one would show up and be the perfect Haggadah, last … Read More

Chase Bank Will Have to Wait if Jewish Non-Profit Wins $1M

By Jennie Rivlin Roberts January 20, 2010

If you are shomer shabbos and buy a Sweet Million lottery ticket, you can’t check to see if you’ve won on Shabbat, right? Well, no big deal, because the chance of winning that lottery are about as good as an … Read More

Why I Don’t Believe In G-d (and Don’t Mind If You Do)

By Jennie Rivlin Roberts October 1, 2009

[This is a response to yesterday's post by Patrick Aleph, "Why I Believe in G-d, And You Should Too."] Go right ahead and believe! I tried to believe in G-d, but couldn’t take the leap. First, thank you, Patrick, for … Read More

Mazal Tov, Luke & Tali!

By Jennie Rivlin Roberts September 16, 2009

Fox TV’s reality dating show More To Love is about much more than body size. More To Love‘s opening shows tiny girls in bikinis with the caption: "The average girl on reality TV is a size 2. The average American … Read More

Name the “Jennie & Patrick Show”

By Jennie Rivlin Roberts August 13, 2009

Hey there! Jewcy contributor, Patrick Aleph of Can!!Can band and PunkTorah, and I are doing these quirky shopping-channelesque videos where we discuss items we sell on ModernTribe.com, the design-forward Jewish gift shop and host of the Jewcy Store. We’d like … Read More

DJ Eric Rosen on Dark, Sexy, and Jewish House Music

By Jennie Rivlin Roberts April 7, 2009

DJ Eric Rosen’s mixes are my kind of music: electronic, acid-jazzy, smooth, silky spins that make you sway. Upon listening to his mix LoveMusic, I was in love. I read an interview by Monica Rozenfeld in PresenTense Magazine and was … Read More