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My best friend sent me this parody video, Brokeback Beit Midrash. As you might expect, it’s a parody of Brokeback ...

It all started with an e-mail from my mom a couple of years ago. She had been googling my name ...

Apparently Q-Tip is into observing Shabbat since he’s been filming Holy Rollers, a movie about Chassidic drug mules. Totally awesome, ...

Since I started listening to music again, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have become the only band that I listen to. ...

There’s a cool article in the NYTimes today about the pastry chef in the White House. He sounds like an ...

What’s with all the Israel-centric science fiction stories these days? I’m not even talking about Assaf Gavron’s magical-realist novel about ...

Here is a shocker. It has been months since I’ve mentioned my main man Omri Casspi on this blog. As ...

My new short story “Hailing Frequency” was just published (and you can hear or read the whole thing online). It’s ...

Here on MJL we cover the basics—Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, Aramaic–but there are others. This week I learned about Juhuri, the ...

So Elena Kagan is Obama’s nominee for Supreme Court Jusice, and I, for one, am elated. I love that there ...

A lot of excitement this week. Especially on television. Anyone see Lost this week? Here is my 50 word reaction ...

A bunch of really adorable non-Jews, including Chase Crawford of Gossip Girl fame. According to Bollywood News: Speaking to Now magazine, the Gossip ...

Have you ever watched one of those “Remembering the 80s” shows on VH1 where they look back at some of ...

Just as we love ourselves despite the faults we know we have, so should we love our neighbors despite the ...

So far this week, Dani Shapiro wrote about moving from Jewish N.Y. to churchy Connecticut and how to find Jews ...