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Rosh Chodesh Av 5772 – the first day of the new month of Av on July 20, 2012, and here ...

I know a little something about hearing voices. My first book,  Muses, Madmen, and Prophets , was about auditory hallucinations ...

This summer, Chaplain Linda Sue Friedman was installed as President of the Jewish Federation of New Mexico — the first ...

When I set out to write the story of the Aleppo Codex, I imagined that I would be writing an uplifting ...

A retired kosher butcher, his young lesbian writing teacher, and a letter from the heart: Lesléa Newman’s short story, “A ...

Numbers 30.2. And Moses spoke to the chiefs of the tribes concerning the people of Israel, saying, This is the ...

Having just spent four years on a book about the biblical manuscript known as the Aleppo Codex, I can say with ...

Is it kosher to listen to Neshama Carlebach in concert? Go to an opera where women are singing solos? Enjoy ...

“The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary.”–Franz Kafka, Parables and Paradoxes.In the up coming, and probably ...

Although it fell, in retrospect, at the mid-point between the launch of the Kindle and the Kindle 2, I don’t ...

In June 2002, Queer Jews came out in a big way. A collection of essays, memoirs and cultural analysis co-edited ...

The Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy is everywhere. I saw a woman reading it the subway last week and another ...

A couple of years ago, I attended a young adult challah-baking event here in Austin.  Some of the young women ...

Two weeks ago, I told my boss I was leaving. This is at my day job, understand–not my job job ...

It was several years ago when my mother went for a flu shot to our family doctor, an avuncular, bearded ...