Mixed Multitudes

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The Smell of Old England

In her last blog, Joanna Smith Rakoff wrote about a family “more identifiably old American than Jewish.”Here in the U.S., ...

Jews, God and Videotape: An Interview With Jeffrey Shandler

America in the 20th century saw an explosion of technology that was unprecedented. People, whether they were comfortable with it ...

Joanna Smith Rakoff: Parallel Lives

In her last blog, Joanna Smith Rakoff wrote about how, in her own way, Jane Austen wrote about being an ...

Tisha B’Av, Music, and Starbucks

Rabbi Reuven Hammer sees much present relevance to what Jeremiah had to say about the destruction of the first Temple ...

David Berman’s The Portable February

David Berman, poet and former lead singer of the Silver Jews, has always been four parts poet to one part ...

Casspi Better Get Used To Losing

In professional sports, winning is everything. Sure, both teams can play hard, but in the end of the day, if ...

Michael Jackson, Power Girl, and the Deeper Meaning of Chests

I just took a walk outside on the rare lunchtime spent in the company of fresh air — well, as ...

Joanna Smith Rakoff: The French Revolution

Joanna Smith Rakoff, author of A Fortunate Age and former editor of Nextbook.org, is guest-blogging for MyJewishLearning and the Jewish ...

Only in America–Where are the Women?

There has been a good amount of talk in the blogosphere about the new National Museum of American Jewish History ...

Best of the Rest

There are only so many articles a website can put up in a week on their homepage. Plus, who can ...

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