Growing up in the South, I was always amazed that some schools and institutions closed on the High Holidays or at least worked major events around them. That is something foreign in parts of the country where there are less Jews. But this story, from Massachusetts, shows an extremely high level of sensitivity: For Massachusetts [...]

I’m not going to reprint it (although, if you’ve got two and a quarter seconds, it’s easy to Google), but following Obama’s visit to the Western Wall last Friday before Shabbat, a yeshiva student filched the note that he wrote to God and stuck in. The ensuing saga has been pretty wild to follow. The [...]

Not that this hasn’t been beaten, bludgeoned, and shechted to death, but: Rubashkin’s is in even more trouble. Yesterday’s front-page New York Times article says that more than 20 underage workers were found, as young as 13, and working night shifts; meanwhile, Jewschool covers the protests in Postville, where over 1500 people rallied for…jeez, illegal [...]

Todays’ New York Times has an extended profile of Israeli investor (and Zhang Ziyi fiance) Vivi Nevo. Who is Mr. Nevo? An Israeli who took a modest inheritance from his family and parlayed it into a sizable fortune through savvy investing, much of it in media and Internet companies — and into connections in the [...]

Ben Bresky, the most prolific (if not the most obsessive) Jewish and Israeli music blogger out there, also hosts a radio show. In recognition of the Three Weeks and the custom of not listening to music, he did an all-out spoken word poetry jam that you can listen to either streaming or via download. It [...]

Last night on my daily supermarket run I picked up some Full Circle Shrimp for the whole family. I had never tasted shrimp so good…maybe it was the way we spiced it, the family gathering, or maybe it was the Hashgacha. This morning I awoke to a blaring kashrut alert in my inbox: Full Circle [...]

As Alan Jay Sufrin says: Score one for those against interfaith marriage. A woman in Chicago is claiming that, on a visit to Ramallah with her husband and their four daughters, she was thrown out of her family-in-law’s house, told by her husband that he’s marrying a Muslim woman, and that he’s keeping their daughters. [...]

The latest issue of Glamour magazine has Christina Aguilera on the cover, but the publication’s contributors are not only concerned with matters of the flesh. Check out the last great book read by photographer Daniel Gabbay.

A look at PresenTense, “a Jerusalem-based hub for a social entrepreneurship training institute, a magazine on Jewish and Israeli culture, a consulting and education service and a network of entrepreneurs, activists and professionals from around the Jewish world.� (Jerusalem Post) A look at the success Hadassah is having in attracting women under age 50. (Jewish [...]

Here at MyJewishLearning, we’re always looking for new ways to serve you better…See that? My first week here, and I’m already saying “we.” It’s been a flurry of activity here all week, and we (see? “we” again) have a bunch of new articles. I just thought I’d give them a shout-out and some excess verbiage [...]