Mixed Multitudes

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A Matzah Eating World Record

It’s a dream that many people have, but few have accomplished. People train for years just for the opportunity to ...

Finder Keepers, Losers Drug Dealers

Apparently some guy was walking around downtown Jerusalem and he found a bag with almost a million shekels in it. ...

Not Kosher

Nora Rubel, author of the recently published Doubting the Devout: The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination, will be blogging ...

Dara Horn + Franz Kafka = Cute Cuddly Creepy Love

Dara Horn, whose astonishing book All Other Nights was just released in paperback, is a big fan of the Czech ...

Best of the Week

When I was a kid, the worst week of the year was the week before Passover. My mom would stop ...

Imagining the Afterlife: Reviewing Sum, by David Eagleman

A few days after my mother died I called T-mobile to cancel her line and to have the family plan ...

Wise Fridays: Don’t Worry

“Rabbi Yehiel maintained that he had learnt from his teachers never to worry about two things–what can be corrected and ...

Shabbat Unplugged

Late last year, I finally got around to reading A.J. Jacobs’ Year of Living Biblically. One thing that stuck out ...

Matzah: The Original Fast Food

Yesterday I blogged about my friend Mat, who’d suddenly decided to bake his own last-minute matzah for Passover. This morning, ...

How to Bake Matzah

By now, most of us are elbow grease-deep in cleaning our houses for Passover, and getting ready to make that ...

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