Mixed Multitudes
Secrets of an Orthodox Matchmaker
Chana Rachel Frumin is the director and founder of the Jerusalem Narrative Family Therapy Institute, where she is a marriage ...
Judd Apatow Reads Our Blog (Or Slate)
I mean, who can blame the guy, right? Judd Apatow, promoting his new film, Funny People (Which I’m so confused ...
Gay Jewish Hip-Hop Saturday Night
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.In hip-hop, Soce the Elemental Wizard is as self-aware as it gets. Not that you ...
Family Matters
A man is unable to marry because the Israeli Rabbinate decides that he is actually an adoptee, although there is ...
I’d JDate him!
It’s the time of year when the Jewish calendar turns to love–Tu B’Av (which falls on August 5th this year). ...
Wise Fridays: Sins and Lizards
The rabbis told this story: In a certain place there was a lizard which used to injure people. They came ...
A Flower of Ashkenazi Frizz
In her last blogs, Joanna Smith Rakoff wrote about some of her favorite books.In the months preceding its publication, Jean ...
Did Noah Have Cute Galoshes?
There are so many stories in the Bible that I (among many people) have a hard time believing as truth.A ...
Ending Kaddish on Tisha B’Av
In a few hours we begin mourning the destruction of the Temple. Tisha B’Av is considered the saddest day of ...
Matchmaker, Make Me A Millionaire!
Coming up on August 5th is Tu B’Av, (the 15th of Av), a Jewish day for matchmaking and love. According ...