Mixed Multitudes

In anticipation of Purim, here’s a great new video by Matt Bar of the Bible Raps Project and HyperSemitic:

Purim is a merrymaking holiday with many food-related traditions, including giving mishloach manot to family and friends and eating triangular-shaped ...

Our homepage article this week talks about the changing demographics in the rabbinate. It specifically sites a growing number of ...

Kudos to FailedMessiah for noting the upcoming lecture to commemorate Professor Saul Lieberman’s 25th yahrzeit. A couple of weeks ago ...

What’s the Jewish angle on the Eliot Spitzer debacle? Gawker helps us out under the title “Shanda fur die Goyim”: ...

I was doing some research into Purim foods earlier today, when I came across a site addressing the etymology behind ...

-Tony Judt argues, “We have attached the memory of the Holocaust so firmly to the defense of a single country—Israel—that ...

MyJewishLearning.com is co-sponsoring a pre-Passover six-part class on Michael Walzer’s Exodus and Revolution along with AJWS, AVODAH, Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, ...

This article from The Christian Science Monitor, asks whether a Third Intifada is brewing? Which caused me to ask, when ...

For multiple generations now, adolescent girls have sought the guidance of author Judy Blume in navigating the world of becoming ...