Mixed Multitudes

How to Judge People

If there’s one thing the Jewish community is all-too often missing, it’s self-criticism. Groups and movements tend to blame other ...

Here’s a great resource for your next trip to Israel: the city of Jerusalem has prepared a series of tours ...

Cantillation or trope has always mesmerized me. I know of no other religion that has a similar system for chanting ...

The fast day of Tisha B’av begins tonight. Like Yom Kippur, this fast lasts a full 26 hours. Argh. I ...

On Sunday, I’ll be heading to Park City, Utah for a conference called called “Why Be Jewish?” The 2 1/2 ...

Rabbi Sherwin Wine, who founded the Secular Humanistic Judaism movement, died in a car crash this weekend. He was 79. ...

A poll shows that in Israel, 27 percent of the Jewish population observes the Shabbat according to Halacha, while 20% ...

Before there were Halliburton and Exxon-Mobil, there was United Fruit.I’ve been spending a lot of my spare time over the ...

As I was browsing articles on Harry Potter, I came across an item from last year where Daniel Radcliffe (Harry ...

The other day I blogged about my gut discomfort with the class-action lawsuit brought by children of Holocaust survivors, asking ...