Mixed Multitudes
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 ...
Jewels of Elul
Once again Craig & Co. are producing inspiring words during the month of Elul, in their Jewels of Elul series.This ...
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 ...
Plant Names in Yiddish
One of the most encyclopedic Web collections I’ve seen recently was created, ironically, to put to rest a supposition that ...
#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 ...
The Book of Job: The Williamsburg Version
One of my favorite things about being a full-time professional Jew is that you, our clientele, kind of view Judaism ...
Gospel Music at Shul: Yay or Nay?
There’s this weird trend going on at my shul recently. Hadar has always been big on people bringing in new ...