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Today on Nextbook, I wrote an article about the brilliant Motown funk of the Israeli colony of Dimona, a Hasidic ...

Okay, I just followed a Google Ad which led to a website advertising this book — a 636-page edition, limited ...

Last night I went to the Mechon Hadar beit midrash  for a session on prayer leaders, and what qualities a ...

(Editor’s Note: I’m not a creep.)Last year, when the writer’s strike in Hollywood was in full effect, I had plenty ...

Tonight at the 92Y Tribeca, I’m hosting the first (hopefully — as in, hopefully there will be a second) open ...

Controversy time!Have an opinion on California’s Proposition 8 banning gay marriage? You are not the only one. Check out the ...

During the summer of 2007 I was a fellow at the first summer of Yeshivat Hadar, an intensive 8-week egalitarian ...

I just wanted to update everyone on the situation of Motl Brody, the 12 year old boy who was on ...

A known Israeli mobster, Yaakov Alperon, was assassinated on Monday in Tel Aviv.  Alperon’s car blew up, killing him and ...

The following preview has me so, so confused. Take Flight is a full-length documentary film about Gary Oldman’s directoral debut. ...

Today is National Adoption Day, which you may have guessed by the title of this blog post and also by ...

Yesterday evening, I had one of those rare moments when I found myself watching the evening news (Truth be told, ...

Ruti Abusch-Magder, a scholar-in-residence at the University of Chicago Hillel is doing outreach based around food and gender (sometimes together, ...

In the wake of Barack Obama’s victory, there’s been quite a bit of laudable introspection on behalf of the Jewish ...

Having been going to Jewish summer camp since I was nine, I have always been taught that Bob Dylan is ...