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A Golem in Brazil

The Apple in the Dark, Clarice Lispector’s fourth novel, was published in Rio de Janeiro in 1961, five years after ...

Wise Fridays: The Creativity of Loneliness

The originality and creativity in man are rooted in his loneliness-experience, not in his social awareness…Social man is superficial: he ...

Kids, You’re On Your Own

Wouldn’t this be a cool legacy? Imagine, when you died, to honor your life, the company you created ceased to ...

Leon Trotsky

The Jewish renegade socialist.

Buying Local in Jerusalem and Supporting Palestinian Farmers

MJL contributor and generally awesome person Leah Koenig has an article at Tablet right now about about a mini-shuk in ...

#GiladShalit

My morning routine is about the same every weekday: Drag my lazy butt out of bed. Feed the dog. Get ...

The Oldest Jews in Brazil

In his last blog, Benjamin Moser wrote about chasing Clarice Lispector around the world.In the oldest synagogue in the New ...

Hey, G*d! Where You At?

One of my rabbis used to tell me that everything we say can be a prayer — and, more than ...

Chasing Clarice Lispector

Benjamin Moser, author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, is guest-blogging for MyJewishLearning and the Jewish Book ...

The Holocaust–LOL or FML?

I’ve blogged about it more than any other movie that’s come out this year. Hell, I don’t even really love ...

Haftarah for Ki Teitzei: Summary

Israel, likened to a barren woman, is promised countless children.

Jewish Genetic Diseases–An Equal Opportunity Issue

The Forward has released its annual guide to genetics, which features numerous articles about testing for and combating Jewish genetic ...