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Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai said that the most difficult to observe of all the 613 commandments is “Honor your father and mother.” –Tanhuma, Ekev 2 Find more Wise Fridays wisdom on MJL.

New Kveller Videos

It’s gotta be tough to be a struggling actor. You gotta go from audition to audition, trying to act professional while the casting director throw tasks at you that sometimes look like they are just messing with you–seeing if you will crack under the pressure. So what would you do if you were an actor [...]

The Jewish New Media Innovation Fund, a pilot program of the Jim Joseph, Righteous Persons, and Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family foundations, announced today the winners of their first grants — and we’re ecstatic to congratulate Kveller.com, one of nine recipients! Here’s what they said: Kveller.com is the first and only Jewish parenting website aimed [...]

We’re all kvelling here at Kveller and MyJewishLearning over the newest addition to the family. Our managing editor, Meredith Lewis, gave birth to a beautiful (and I’m not just saying that, the kid is darn handsome) boy last week. We haven’t heard the birth story yet, only that it’s all too fresh for her to [...]

Eema Knows Best?

There are a lot of things I would do before giving my parents control over my dating life. For instance, I think I would happily gouge my own eye out with a fork, feed my finger into a pencil sharpener, or, I don’t know, listen to the complete works of Yani and Kenny G while [...]

There’s a new kosher restaurant right near our office. It’s called Tiberias. The food looks yummy and the decor looks great and, rarest of all for a kosher restaurant (or, as I’m given to understand through reading way too many Anthony Bourdain books, rare for the restaurant business in general), the owners are actually perched [...]

DIY Challah Cover

One week when I was living in Dublin I went to a party in a professor’s apartment on a Friday night. It was a potluck, so I made challah and brought it. The (non-Jewish) professor saw the challah and said, “Oh hey, I found a knife in the kitchen [he was subletting another professor's apartment] [...]

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