Mixed Multitudes

Today’s Jewel of Elul from Craig and Co. is by Jerome Groopman, a professor of medicine at Harvard and a ...

I finally started reading Michael Chabon’s new novel The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, and so far, as virtually all the reviews ...

Recently the Union for Reform Judaism published a new edition of Kulanu (All of Us), a resource guide for LGBT ...

Don’t get me wrong. Academic pressure is nothing new. Case in point: when I was in third grade my teacher ...

“The cats here are asleep- the poor, wretched, imprisoned cats. I feel like abusing them.”Just another classic quote from Tomorrow’s ...

Yesterday I blogged about our need, as a community, to confront the darker corners of our textual tradition. I worried ...

Earlier this week I blogged about non-Orthodox couples choosing to have an Orthodox rabbi officiate at their weddings. This post ...

Shmuel Rosner, Ha’aretz’s chief U.S. correspondent, has a piece on Slate which considers Jordan’s stability in the overall status of ...

With the beginning of Elul (duly noted by Lili earlier today) our friends over at Craig and Co. have unveiled ...

This week, I contributed the Dvar Torah to American Jewish World Service’s Dvar Tzedek (which we also syndicate on MJL). ...