Mixed Multitudes
Jewish Genius
The American Enterprise Institute’s Charles Murray has published an article in this month’s issue of Commentary Magazine that is already ...
He’s Back…
Nathan Englander’s long-awaited follow-up to his amazing story collection For the Relief on Unbearable Urges will be published later this ...
Tikkun Olam Watch
Recently, in a four-part series published in the Charlotte Observer, my old college roommate Binyamin Appelbaum, broke a huge story ...
Kafka in Bronteland
A few weeks ago, Tamar Yellin won the first $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for her novel The ...
Roth and Bellow, Again
Philip Roth has won another award, the first PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, named for his good ...
MJL Editorial Internship
MyJewishLearning.com is seeking a summer intern to work out of its New York, NY headquarters. This intern will work closely ...
Pour Out Thy Wrath
Over at Contentions, Hillel Halkin has posted a thought about one of the Passover Haggadah’s most difficult texts: shfokh hamatkha, ...
Israeli Certainty
According to a new poll, 85% of Israelis believe in God, while 12% are atheists. The interesting part of the ...
How Is This Night Different?
Ima is cleaning.When I was pregnant, I ate saltine crackers in bed to ward off the morning sickness. When my ...
The Circumcision Debate
Last month, I went to the bris of a colleague’s newborn son, and I was reminded how difficult these lifecycle ...