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My First Bat Mitzvah Party

The other day, I wrote about vomiting at my bar mitzvah party. Not my finest hour.Since then, I’ve been thinking ...

Snoop Dogg and Kashrut

Maybe it’s the fact that all the Israelis I knew growing up were seriously cute girls (Orali in fourth grade, ...

How Do You Want to Spend the Last Days of Your Life?

This isn’t a fun question, but it’s an important one: What kind of death do you want? If you found ...

Paul Rudd–DJ Extraordinaire

Looking back, I didn’t totally enjoy my bar mitzvah party. Mostly because I vomited at it.No, I didn’t have some ...

Cookbook Review: Simply Southern With a Dash of Kosher Soul

The good people from the Margolin Hebrew Academy/Feinstone Yeshiva of the South sent us a copy of their awesome kosher ...

Shaq Joins The Hebrew Craze

I’m going to be honest. I hate everything about Shaquille O’Neal. He’s cocky. He’s arrogant. He thinks he is funnier ...

Day Schools & Jewish Education

An emerging Jewish education nonprofit, Kevah, by the fall will have 25 learning circles, typically 8-12 people meeting in homes ...

Adam Levin Will Beat You Up

We just received this new novel in the mail, Adam Levin’s The Instructions. It’s comprised of two volumes, 1020 pages, ...

I’m no longer just an author …

In his earlier posts, Adam Langer set out to write a screenplay and wrote a book in two months. His ...

Best of the Week

With this week (And month. Summer is almost over people. Get your winter coats out) coming to a close, let’s ...

Wise Fridays: Caring for the Poor

“When Rabbi Joshua ben Levi went to Rome, he saw marble pillars covered with sheets, so they wouldn’t crack from ...

A Weird Birthday Present

Facebook trends go in fazes. We’ve had Farmville. We’ve had quizzes. We’ve had wallposts. But my favorite Facebook trend was ...

The Octopus Against the Dictator

Normally, in a battle of man vs. animal, I would take man. However, I wouldn’t bet against this animal, especially ...

Prayer for the Gulf of Mexico

Rabbi Danielle Upbin sent us a prayer she wrote for the Gulf of Mexico. The good news is that it ...

Israel Won’t Solve Your Problems: Contemporary Fiction Edition

I have a friend who’s Indian, but who hates reading Jhumpa Lahiri and Monica Ali, women who are celebrated for ...

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