Mixed Multitudes
Halakha and Avoiding Civilian casualties
England’s Jewish Chronicle is running a great Op-Ed by Daniel Reisel about the Jewish legal obligation to avoid civilian casualties ...
J Street, I Almost Loved You
In The Case for Israel, Alan Dershowitz devotes two chapters to people who he refers to as “More Israeli than ...
Torah Commentary For the Rest of Us
This is the kind of Torah commentary that the world needs more of. Last night I was at dinner with ...
Chrismukkah Cookbook A Waste of Cash
I was out with a friend on Sunday and came across the Chrismukkah Cookbook. Written by Ron Gompertz the cookbook ...
At Least They Weren’t Pulled In to Make a Minyan
On New Year’s Eve, while you were busy not remembering your evening, two men dressed as Hasidic Jews robbed Dialite ...
Newsbite Volley: Right Now in Gaza
It’s the 13th day of the war, and things are showing no signs of letting up or chilling out. And ...
Food Tourney 1st Round Results
The 1st Round is officially complete. Check in on Monday for the Elite Eight. Check the final results below. Click ...
King David: Coming to Primetime
Now you can do some of your Jewish learning in the evenings while you watch the tube. NBC will begin ...
The Tao of Jewish Music (and the Hebrew Alphabet)
The new issue of the Blue Jew Yorker is out and, as far as literary magazines go, this one couldn’t ...
Jewish Food Tourney: # 8 Brisket vs #9 Sufganiyot
We had our first upset yesterday. #10 Gefilte Fish beat #7 Hamentashen. I was so excited I had trouble falling ...