Mixed Multitudes
I Don’t Think We’re in Great Neck Anymore.
Long Island, if you’ve never been, is known to be a bit of a Jewish hotbed. With their deep New ...
Family Matters
In the last few years, quite a few gay men in Israel have decided to become parents and raise children ...
What Makes a Kosher Pickle Kosher?
When we hear the word pickle, most of us think of cucumbers — brined, shriveled, sour, cut into chips and ...
Best of the Rest
It’s that time of the week again. I tell you what you missed on MJL and you expand your mind. ...
Learning From Sotah
This week’s Torah portion discusses the sotah, a woman suspected of adultery, who’s is forced to drink “bitter water” to ...
Interview with DeScribe: “Makin’ It” with Y-Love
A few years ago, I was asked (by another publication) to track down this Hasidic rapper who seemed to come ...
Wise Fridays: Thinking & Judging
“In analyzing or evaluating an object, we think and judge from a particular point of view. The psychologist, economist, and ...
Uhhhh Wrong Choice of Words?
Everyone, by now, must have heard about the scary terror plot at two synagogues in the Bronx. Luckily, the FBI ...
Jonathan Safran Foer Eats Food.
A marvelous, funny, and just pleasant-to-read interview with Jonathan Safran Foer has just appeared on The Young and Hungry, serving ...
All Hitler All the Time
I have a confession to make: I kind of like Holocaust movies. I wouldn’t go so far as to have ...