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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 ...
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 ...