Mixed Multitudes
MyJewishLearning.com–Outstanding Website
We are happy to report that MyJewishLearning.com was just awarded the Most Outstanding Website Award from the American Jewish Press ...
Get Your Peanuts Out of My Chickpeas!
I love it when hummus is in the news. Partially this is because I love hummus. I had hummus for ...
All Look Same
Thing #147 that Black folks and Jewish folks have in common: We all look the same to everybody else. In ...
Alan Dershowitz–Republican?
Say it ain’t so Alan! One of my favorite liberals (at least I always considered him a liberal), Alan Dershowitz, ...
The Rebbe and the Forty-Nine Hipsters
Last week, I told you how the Biala Rebbe was coming to our house. And I’ve gotten a bunch of ...
Haurowitz/Harris’ Goods and Sundries
On Monday, Allison Amend wrote about Jews in odd places. She is the author of the novel Stations West. She ...
Cooking the Bible
Let’s get this out first: Kitty Morse’s texually-inspired cookbook A Biblical Feast is not a Jewish book. Or, to be ...
Talking to a Rabbi About Gay Marriage
The Governor of Hawaii is a Jewish woman, and pretty soon she is going to decide whether to veto a ...
Immigrant & Migrant Worker Issues in Israel
Longtime residents of some south Tel Aviv neighborhoods angrily protest the influx of foreign workers and asylum seekers. (Jerusalem Post)A ...
The Truth About Jewish Summer Camps
I went to summer camp for a long time (Alonim 2002, what what?…okay that was the most excited I’ve ever ...