July 2010

Israeli Movie Stars, the Western Wall, and Other Awesome Mistakes

So. I’m in Israel. We’d just had our two free hours in Jerusalem, virtually the only free time on this whole ...

Yesterday night I went to see The Merchant of Venice at the Public Theater in New York. Shakespeare in the ...

With the week coming to a close, here are some things you might have missed here at MJL:With baby boomers ...

Sometimes you just have to say what is on your mind. I want Elena Kagan to be a member of ...

Remember way back in 2001 there was that band, Evan and Jaron, and they were Jewish brothers who made catchy ...

Arthur Green, rector of the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College, just published an article in the Forward on how Hasidim ...

Earlier this week, Allegra Goodman wrote about being a world artist and writing “Jewish” fiction. She will be blogging all ...

“Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown ...

Here is a cool little art project that my brother sent over to me.The city of Lublin, Poland might best ...

I don’t have an iPhone, so I don’t find myself downloading tons of apps. However, I do have an iPod ...