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Posted in History, Beliefs, Texts on November 20th, 2009 
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Shabbat is starting earlier and earlier. Someone please stop the sun. It is on a reign of terror that I just can’t handle right now. Then again, ending Shabbat at 5:15 in the afternoon isn’t such a bad thing either. So…I guess…keep doin’ your thing sun (and no one write me with that whole “it’s […]
Posted in Life, Texts on November 20th, 2009 No Comments »
Rabbi Judah ben Tabai said: If anyone had said to me before I entered high office, “Assume that office,” my only wish would have been to hound him to death. Now that I have entered high office, if anyone were to tell me, “Give it up,” I would pour a kettle of boiling water on […]
Posted in Culture, Texts on November 19th, 2009 No Comments »
This season, New York City Opera brought back on stage the late Hugo Weisgall’s Esther, a contemporary work based on the biblical story of mortal danger and miraculous survival. Set in ancient Persia, the opera engages questions of destiny and assimilation, violence and victory, thus making it relevant to contemporary audiences.
Plot Synopsis
The plot of the […]
Posted in Practices, Texts on November 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Two weeks ago in Parashat Vayera we read about how Abraham and Sarah were really stellar hosts, and on MJL we even featured our article on how to be a good host and a good guest. I think our ideas are pretty good, but Apartment Therapy is featuring a bunch of other tips to keep […]
Posted in Culture, History, Texts on November 6th, 2009 No Comments »
The Yankees win! The Yankees win! Oh, I’m sorry. That would be in the “Worst of the Week.” Quick rant: Instead of 50 game suspensions for baseball players caught using steroids, how about they make a rule that every time a player’s name is ever mentioned in the media again, whether it be in newspapers, […]
Posted in Texts on November 3rd, 2009 1 Comment »
David Ostow, the comic artist behind So Punk Rock (And Other Ways to Disappoint Your Mother), and his sister, Micol Ostow, are guest-blogging all week with MyJewishLearning and Jewish Book Council.
These are the first two pages of a strip I’m currently drawing with the working title “In Defense of The Irrational: A Brief and Not […]
Posted in Texts on November 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
Some editor over at FunnyorDie.com must have gone to Jewish day school. There is no other explanation as to why they would decide to post this video now.
This week’s Torah portion is Vayera, which includes the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. So why not make a viral video about it? During the filming of Year […]
Posted in Texts on October 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
In her last posts, Ellen Frankel looked at how to make the Bible PG and asked “What is Jewish Literature?”
In this week’s parshah, Noah, we read about the Tower of Babel, constructed at a time when “everyone on earth had the same language and the same words” (Gen. 11:1). But because the Tower’s builders […]
Posted in Texts on October 22nd, 2009 1 Comment »
Of all the gigs I’ve ever had, this had to be the most extreme. And I wasn’t even there.
To celebrate reading the story of Noah in the Torah, Amsterdam Jewish Salon had a cruise. And they showed the Noah G-dcast, which I {humbly} narrated.
You might think it’s heretical to take a leisurely cruise in […]
Posted in Texts on October 19th, 2009 1 Comment »
Ellen Frankel is the author of the JPS Illustrated Children’s Bible, as well as the Editor-in-Chief and CEO of the Jewish Publication Society.
For most of Jewish history, the Bible was “one size fits all.” There was simply no such thing as a children’s version.
The second-century rabbinic anthology Pirkei Avot counsels: “At five years […]
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