Mixed Multitudes
Don’t Bother Working on Your Relationship With God
Over at experimental theology Richard Beck has a story about a girl who came to him and said something about ...
The Aftermath of the New Jersey Scandal
Some ultra-Orthodox Jewish leaders are describing the arrests in NJ as a “wakeup call” rather than issue the usual suspicion ...
Love Songs, Pop Songs, and Musical Holocaust Memoirs
There are generally two kinds of Jewish kids who are obsessed with music — the Broadway musical type, and the ...
The Abayudaya Jews of Uganda
In his last blog, Charles London talked about a collected Jewish museum.The Jerusalem Post has published a report, unsurprising to ...
The Adventures of Todd & God: How to Hang a Mezuzah
You know you missed them. And they missed you (I guess God never left. But Todd definitely missed you!) In ...
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Becoming Orthodox
The cover of The Baal Teshuva Survival Guide, a handbook to making it as a newly-minted Orthodox Jew, depicts a ...
Inglorious Basterds–The First of Many.
Over the next few weeks, you are going to hear a lot about Quentin Tarantino’s new film, Inglorious Basterds. Actually, ...
In Defense of Modern Orthodoxy
Is it just me, or is every article about Orthodoxy these days either glorifying it or attacking the very existence ...
The Evangelicals are Coming for Us!
Remember the Promise Keepers? No? Well they were a big group of Evangelical men who liked to meet up in ...
Big Matzah Ballin’
This is why New York scares me: We had the world’s largest matzah ball in our midst. It contained 1,000 ...