Mixed Multitudes

When user-testing the Tagged Tanakh, the Jewish Publication Society’s attempt to user-navigate the Bible, my first reaction was, this is ...

Growing up, I didn’t really know what Tisha B’av (It was pronounced Tish Above) was. I did get the sense ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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