Jewcy is rallying the troops for a boycott of Abe Foxman’s speech at the 92nd Street Y next week to further their public outcry over his previous refusal to label the Armenian genocide “genocide.” They, and others, are still criticizing Foxman for failing to endorse a proposed congressional resolution to recognize the genocide.
I will not […]

Israel is working on making the Negev bloom, again:
Development in the northern Negev received a boost on Tuesday from Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who approved the creation of a new rural settlement district in eastern Lachish, consisting of seven new communities. (MORE)
Call me crazy, but the last time a concerted effort was made to house […]

Check out this hilarious video from the National Jewish Outreach Program.

When I saw the title–a take-off of The Tonight Show’s “JayWalking,” a segment devoted to mocking the so-called ignorance of the masses–I was all poised to feel over-educated and intellectually superior. But the truth is, even with my day school education and year in […]

Our friends at CampusJ.com are looking for an associate editor. Here are the deets:
At CampusJ.com, we have two goals: providing comprehensive coverage of Jewish news on campus, as well as training and opportunities for the next generation of Jewish journalists.
Last semester, we had a staff or 26 beat reporters located at campuses across the United […]

Here at MJL, we love food. We have a monthly recipe e-letter as well as a whole section devoted to it. We also tend to eat it every day.
So we’re excited that Jewcy has launched an entire blog about food–Pickled:
There’s something a-rye in the world of Jewish cuisine. Few can name Jewish dishes outside the […]

Today’s Jewel of Elul from Craig and Co. is by Harriet Rossetto, the founder of Beit T’shuvah, the first and only residential Jewish addiction and rehabilitation program in the United States.
I was addicted to despair. What’s the point? Why bother? Life is hard, and then you die. In those days I called it existentialism, which […]

What is plov? And why is it an Uzbeki favorite?
Find out the answers to all these questions and more in the latest installment of Adeena Sussman’s MJL food column, “The Inspired Kitchen.”

Sandi Dubowski, director of Trembling Before God, the remarkable documentary about gay Orthodox Jews, has just announced the premier of a similarly-themed film, which he produced: A Jihad For Love, directed by Parvez Sharma.
In a time when Islam is under tremendous attack - from within and without -’A Jihad for Love’ is a daring documentary […]

For the upcoming High Holiday season, we’ve made a special arrangement with everyone’s favorite Jewish newspaper, The Forward.
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I still haven’t had time to fully digest an intriguing piece from the Forward today, but I figured I’d throw it out for discussion to our readers:
Next week Arnold Eisen will be officially installed as the seventh chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, Conservative Judaism’s flagship educational institution. While Eisen’s appointment as Conservative Judaism’s new […]