Mixed Multitudes
Summer Reading Recommendation: These Mountains
It’s hot outside. Too hot to focus on anything. I usually love to read a big fat novel, but in ...
Israel’s Other White Meat
For any kosher law abiding Jew, visiting Israel is an opportunity to eat some of the things that are normally ...
Writing “Jewish” Fiction
Allegra Goodman’s new novel, The Cookbook Collector , will be released next week. She will be blogging all week for ...
Best of the Week
As the week comes to a close, here are some things you might have missed at MyJewishLearning.com.The Bible provides epic ...
We Were Shut Out
A dark, dark day in basketball. As the state of Kentucky rejoiced with five of their state college’s players being ...
A New Anne Frank Controversy
There’s a new novel out that imagines the life inside the Annex where Anne Frank and her family lived, told ...
How Do You Say Goal in Hebrew?
If you’re like half the population of the world, you’re pretty interested in that whole World Cup situation that’s going ...
Allegra Goodman Goes to Berkeley
Next week I’m especially psyched that we’re going to host Allegra Goodman to the MJL/Jewish Book Council Authors’ Blog. Goodman ...
Wise Fridays: Families of Jerusalem
“Beautiful are the families of Jerusalem: A mother from a Russian curse and a father from a Spanish curse, A ...
Searching for Bobby Fischer’s Money
As a kid, I remember having a bunch of books about Jews in sports. The books would tell stories about ...