Mixed Multitudes

Jean Baudrillard, the maddeningly-obscure, but prophetic, French philosopher died earlier this week at the age of 77.Baudrillard wasn’t Jewish. But ...

The other night I went to an Emerging Jewish Writers panel/reading as part of the Steinhardt Jewish Heritage Festival. The ...

In the world of Jewish learning, understanding Rashi is one of the most basic—and the most difficult—skills you’ll have to ...

As expected, the University of Judaism made the first practical move toward integrating the Conservative movement’s new responsum on homosexuality: ...

Thanks to our friends at American Jewish World Service and the Jewish Outreach Institute you can now read weekly Torah ...

March is Jewish Women’s History Month. But really, shouldn’t every month be Jewish Women’s History Month? Every day of every ...

Slate asks the question on everyone’s mind: “If male martyrs can expect to find 72 virgin maidens in paradise when ...

Today is Shushan Purim, the day Purim is celebrated in cities that were “walled” at the time of Joshua. Most ...

In 2000, Harvard professor Ruth Wisse published The Modern Jewish Canon, a book that surveys two centuries of Jewish literature, ...

Well, Ron Jeremy certainly, and on Beliefnet you can find a new interview in which the porn star discusses his ...