Mixed Multitudes
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
It’s been a rough year for Jewish-Black relations. Because of the whole Hillary/Obama showdown, and The Great Schlep, I’ve been ...
More Ironic Than Rain On Your Wedding Day
Oy. So the Simon Wiesenthal Center is hoping to build a Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem. According to the Washington ...
Historic Moment for the Conservative Movement
Yesterday, the Rabbinical Assembly elected Rabbi Julie Schoenfeld to be their next Executive Vice President, the highest administrative position in ...
Who Ya Gonna Call? Jewish Ghostbusters!
Just in time for the launch of our new Magic and the Supernatural section, the New York Times runs an ...
Half a Torah
What is a haftarah, exactly? You should visit MJL’s haftarah page to become an authority on the matter in less ...
Impurim
San Francisco, for all that city’s rent chaos and interweb madness, still has one of the most productive, experimental, and ...
Counting to Ten
(Cross-posted at Blogging the Kaddish) This morning I went to a different minyan than usual because it was a friend’s ...
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It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a pop-up?? Okay, yes it’s a pop-up on our homepage. But it’s for ...
What’s the deal with libel?
I’m all about reporting on people being sued. Today’s victim, Jerry Seinfeld.Let me give you the whole story. Jerry has ...
Daily Show Democrats and Larry-publicans
Guest blogger Simcha Weinstein is the rabbi of the Pratt Institute. His latest book, Shtick Shift: Jewish Humor in the ...