Mixed Multitudes

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What Religion Is

I haven’t yet seen Bill Maher’s new documentary Religulous, but it’s premise is hardly novel. By now, we know the ...

Anne Frank reincarnated

A minister friend writes, the Spiritualist Church is formally *not* adopting any ideas or belief concerning reincarnation on their National ...

The Concept of Jewball

Jewball.  Urban Dictionary describes it as “a less intensive version of any of the following: baseball, basketball, football, etc.”By that ...

Etrog!!!

You’d think an etrog in Hasidic Brooklyn would be easy to find.After all, when I lived in San Francisco (Jewish ...

Denying your Judaism: You’re not the only one

This past Monday afternoon, while walking out of a restaurant with my lunch in hand, I spotted a table of ...

The Bailout: a modest proposal

In the aftermath of the third debate, our friend Sarah Lefton, the person behind all those Jews for Jeter t-shirts, ...

Re-Greening Sukkot

(Cross-posted at The Jew & The Carrot)I love sukkot, but one of the things that has always frustrated me about ...

Food porn.

Earlier today, Tamar called out the Hasidic community in Williamsburg for, well, defacing advertisements for restaurants that are seen as ...

Yom Kippur does the mind and body good.

In my previous post on holiday rankings, I talked about how Yom Kippur, if nothing else, is a great time ...

Kugels and Chulent Only!

Over at Jewlicious Y-Love alerts us to a bizarre new modesty issue in the haredi community: an unnecessarily wide variety ...

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