Mixed Multitudes
That Anti-Semitism Article
I know I’m a week late, but I finally got around to reading Alvin Rosenfeld’s AJC article “Progressive Jewish Thought ...
Down with Jewish Rap, Up with Jewish Blues! Way up!
So, last week I posted my distaste for the Jewish National Fund’s rap video and Jewish organizations making rap videos in ...
More Walt & Mearsheimer
I just received Farrar, Straus, & Giroux’s preview of its Fall 2007 books, and Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer’s The ...
Costume Central
Tu Bishvat is behind us, which means that Purim is less than a month away. Have you started thinking about ...
Praying for My Soul
Overheard at the Brooklyn Writer’s Space in Park Slope…Woman: You know that coffee shop Postmark?Man: Yeah.Woman: It’s a front! Christian ...
Science & Judaism
I’m pleased to announce MJL’s newest section: Science & Judaism.We’ll be rolling out some more content (including a sub-section on ...
Letters to Klinghoffer
I shared my thoughts (I, II) on David Klinghoffer’s critique of Limmud NY (and “liberal pluralism, generally), now the Forward‘s ...
Up With Trees! Down with Jewish Rap!
There’s a Tu Bishvat video from the Jewish National Fund that seems to be circulating quickly around the Jewish web. ...
Modern Jewish Mom
I received a copy of Meredith Jacobs’ The Modern Jewish Mom’s Guide to Shabbat today. I haven’t looked through the ...
The Boy Who Fell
As the aspiring fiction writers among us know, novels (and certainly short stories) do not sell as well as non-fiction. ...