Mixed Multitudes
Perspectives on Jerusalem
-Jason Eskenazi came to Jerusalem with 26 point & shoot cameras and over 250 rolls of film, and a plan ...
Haman Song
In anticipation of Purim, here’s a great new video by Matt Bar of the Bible Raps Project and HyperSemitic:
The Inspired Kitchen
Purim is a merrymaking holiday with many food-related traditions, including giving mishloach manot to family and friends and eating triangular-shaped ...
Who’s that woman in the pulpit?
Our homepage article this week talks about the changing demographics in the rabbinate. It specifically sites a growing number of ...
Remembering Saul Lieberman
Kudos to FailedMessiah for noting the upcoming lecture to commemorate Professor Saul Lieberman’s 25th yahrzeit. A couple of weeks ago ...
Oy, Spitzer
What’s the Jewish angle on the Eliot Spitzer debacle? Gawker helps us out under the title “Shanda fur die Goyim”: ...
H-taschen
I was doing some research into Purim foods earlier today, when I came across a site addressing the etymology behind ...
The Holocaust in the Arts & Education
-Tony Judt argues, “We have attached the memory of the Holocaust so firmly to the defense of a single country—Israel—that ...
Exodus & Revolution
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, ...
Third Intifada?
This article from The Christian Science Monitor, asks whether a Third Intifada is brewing? Which caused me to ask, when ...