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You Can Fill My Pool With That Anytime.
Our newest section, Magic & the Supernatural, has articles about all types of amulets and other magical objects. We’ve been ...
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
It’s been a rough year for Jewish-Black relations. Because of the whole Hillary/Obama showdown, and The Great Schlep, I’ve been ...
More Ironic Than Rain On Your Wedding Day
Oy. So the Simon Wiesenthal Center is hoping to build a Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem. According to the Washington ...
Historic Moment for the Conservative Movement
Yesterday, the Rabbinical Assembly elected Rabbi Julie Schoenfeld to be their next Executive Vice President, the highest administrative position in ...
Who Ya Gonna Call? Jewish Ghostbusters!
Just in time for the launch of our new Magic and the Supernatural section, the New York Times runs an ...
Half a Torah
What is a haftarah, exactly? You should visit MJL’s haftarah page to become an authority on the matter in less ...
Impurim
San Francisco, for all that city’s rent chaos and interweb madness, still has one of the most productive, experimental, and ...
Counting to Ten
(Cross-posted at Blogging the Kaddish) This morning I went to a different minyan than usual because it was a friend’s ...
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It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a pop-up?? Okay, yes it’s a pop-up on our homepage. But it’s for ...
What’s the deal with libel?
I’m all about reporting on people being sued. Today’s victim, Jerry Seinfeld.Let me give you the whole story. Jerry has ...
Daily Show Democrats and Larry-publicans
Guest blogger Simcha Weinstein is the rabbi of the Pratt Institute. His latest book, Shtick Shift: Jewish Humor in the ...
The Kabbalah of Young-Adult Literature
Not to get too self-promulgating, but if you’re in New York, show up at the New York Public Library, Jefferson ...
Size Doesn’t Matter (Seriously)
Last night I met up with some of my old friends from the Jewish Society at Oxford, and remembered how ...
From Krakow to Krypton
I know, I know: ask and ye shall receive. The day after I blogged about the new book From Krakow ...
Better find a friend who takes good notes.
Sorry gentile college students of Toronto. That long weekend trip to Cape Cod you were planning next Rosh Hashanah is ...