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Heeb, Seriously

No joke. Heeb magazine’s humor editor David Deutsch takes on Brandeis professor Jonathan Sarna in an op-ed in this week’s ...

Digging the Bible

Since 2006, Slate editor Daivd Plotz has been “blogging the Bible.” Unsettled by reading the story of the rape of ...

West Bank Outposts

–An overview of the unauthorized settlement outposts in the West Bank finds there to be over 100 at present. Ariel ...

The Rule of Law in Israel

-In a number of cities “intransigent registrars and rabbis” are refusing to recognize state-sanctioned conversions to Judaism, and it is ...

Who is a Jew?

From the Dallas Morning News Religion Blog:ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri inmate once labeled a white supremacist is fighting ...

Avenue Q In Israel

Ever wonder what happens when shows tour the globe? How do cultural references and idioms get translated? Jewschool has an ...

Watch the Money

Leave it to the Federation of Silicon Valley to figure out how to use technology compellingly and effectively.  This cute video ...

Antisemitism and Antizionism

-April Rosenblum, a 27-year-old progressive activist, has put out a remarkable pamphlet “Making Resistance to Antisemitism Part of All of ...

Chabad in Hebron

Lazer Gurkow recently published an article on Chabad.org about the Lubavitch presence in Hebron. Gurkow notes the apparent irony of ...

National Jewish Book Awards

Congratulations to our friends at the Jewish Publication Society who won four National Jewish Book Awards last week.Inventing Jewish Ritual ...

Jewish Ethics

-A look at a new national curriculum called Ethical Start, which is reframing the way JCC educators teach values to ...

Ancient Texts

MJL is proud to introduce a new subsection on Ancient Texts. In it, you’ll find articles our articles apocrypha, pseudepigrapha, ...

Eldridge Street Synagogue Reviewed

For more than 20 years, the Eldridge Street Project worked to restore the landmark Eldridge Street Synagogue on New York’s ...

The Lesson of the Jews

This month’s issue of Esquire cites a funny — and oddly insightful — description of the Jewish condition from…um…Roseanne: When ...

The Real Ron Paul

Yesterday I wrote that no politician in his or her right mind would do anything “bad for the Jews.” Not ...