Mixed Multitudes

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Estelle Getty z”l

Estelle Getty, the diminutive actress who spent 40 years struggling for success before landing a role of a lifetime in ...

Female Rabbis, Male Stand-up Comedians

Today on his blog, Frum Satire starts a discussion about whether women could be Orthodox rabbis. It’s interesting, less in ...

Agunah Progress

It’s an embarrassing fact that Jewish women trying to get a get (writ of divorce) from recalcitrant husbands are often ...

The Regressive Renaissance

Recently, I read — and very much enjoyed — Keith Gessen’s fiction debut All the Sad Young Literary Men. Tonight, ...

Blogging the Aggadah

The Aggadah is the non-Jewish Law-intensive part of the Talmud–that is, the part with all the cool stories and lasers ...

HA YA!

Four years ago in Athens, Gal Fridman (whose first name means wave) took home the first gold medal for Israel ...

More Bulldozer Evilness

Another bulldozer attack in Jerusalem, this one a few hundred meters from the hotel where Barack Obama will be staying ...

Hoop Dreams

Not digging your current job?Have that Zionist inkling to move to Israel?Have professional basketball experience?If you managed to say yes ...

The Jewish Body

A controversy erupts over whether an Orthodox woman, who covers her hair with a wig for religious reasons, should be ...

Rav Amital’s Torah

A couple of months ago I mentioned — with great fondness — Rav Yehuda Amital, the founder of Yeshivat Har ...

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