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Damn you Forward 50 and Heeb 100. Look what you have done.First there is the MJL Million (no need to ...

Scrubs star Zach Braff is hanging out in Tel Aviv these days, and in an interview with Haaretz it sure ...

As noted earlier today, racism in the religious Jewish community has been more intense — and scrutinized more intensely — ...

I first heard about Birthright’s new initiative about a month ago. Called Next Shabbat, Taglit-Birthright Israel is sponsoring their alumni ...

I love this article in the New York Times about a pastor who told his congregation of some 20,000 people ...

Last week, I blogged about the Jewish community’s (and particularly the Orthodox community’s) confrontation with residual racism (in light of ...

In the mid-’90s, Israeli television personality Gil Kopatch brought Rabbi Mordechai Gafni on his sports/talk/news show to discuss the weekly ...

Yesterday, in London, Israeli President Shimon Peres was honored by the Queen of England by becoming a knight. I tried ...

JTA is currently featuring an article about the challenge of choosing a name for a Jewish baby, so I thought ...

An update on the evolution debate my home state of Crazyland, aka Texas. Just before the school year, the board ...

In recent months I have received a flurry of wedding invitations. I have also been helping plan my sister’s wedding, ...

The L.A. Times ran a piece a few days ago on Muslim punk-rock teenagers, which mostly served as an excuse ...

So it’s that time of the year when many people start buying calendars for next year. And some nice Jewish ...

Last week an older man who I know from various minyanim on the Upper West Side mentioned that he was ...

Shalom TV is starting up a war! Everybody hit the floor so you don’t get hit!In an interview this week ...