Mixed Multitudes

As some of you might have noticed from earlier blog posts, the synagogue I now attend is a bit old-fashioned. ...

It seems like everyone is taking advantage of new outlets online. Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial museum of Israel, has ...

-Turkey is readying efforts to get Israel-Syria talks underway. (Haaretz)-Looking at the substantial domestic opposition to a deal with Syria ...

In this installment of From the Academy Dr. Galit Hasan Rokem, Max and Margarethe Grunwald Chair of Folklore at the Hebrew ...

Pirkei Avot 1:6 continues the conversation about social ethics, which began in Mishnah 4. 1:6 – Joshua ben Perachyah and ...

-The distinction between the Holocaust’s meanings and its facts “highlights a central issue in the broader debate about what it ...

Do you use a special toothbrush and toothpaste to brush your teeth on Shabbat? If not, it appears that you’re ...

The fourth and fifth mishnayot of Pirkei Avot Chapter 1 begin a series of teachings about ethical socializing — and ...

-A project sets its goal to collect 1.5 million crayons to commemorate the 1.5 million children who perished in the ...

Oh Jay Firestone. Replace “Twenty-three” with “Twenty-six” and “male” with “female” and you actually have me: The Next Intergenerational Mah ...