Mixed Multitudes

-A look at the treatment of marginal individuals (lepers, the disabled and the mentally ill) in medieval Northern European Jewish ...

In the Forward this week, Abbott Katz begins his plea for new Jewish nomenclature with: “Stop calling me an ultra-Orthodox ...

If you haven’t yet seen Orthodox Stance, Jason Hutt’s excellent documentary about Orthodox Jewish boxer Dmitriy Salita, you can check ...

MJL is sorry to hear that Beliefnet’s Jewish blog, Virtual Talmud is being shut down. It has added great insight ...

I spent this past weekend with 175 Jewish high school students from the New York region of USY. The educational ...

-A majority of Israeli public feels religious and secular Jews ought to live in separate neighborhoods. (Ynet)-A new poll looks ...

As our homepage article addresses, many Jews from Iran left the country after the 1979 revolution. Those that came to ...

Is it possible that the collapse of Bear Stearns is comparable to the destruction of the Second Temple? That might ...

This year marks the 125th anniversary of Franz Kafka’s birth. Which is, of course, totally meaningless — unless you’re looking ...

I came across this post from Izzy Grinspan over at Jewcy on the same day that my beloved Tagalong Girl ...