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Want to fix the world? There is a solution.

A recent trend in commercials about political issues is to have a close up of a famous celebrity/sad looking child’s ...

Noah, Meet Youtube.

G-dcast has been going off the hook lately. First there was the wave of Jewish blogs raving, then the Gigaom ...

Jews in Television #2: Hitting on Bubbie.

You heard me. Hitting on Bubbie.Ever see the show The Pickup Artist? Or to be more exact, The Pickup Artist ...

Mourning and the Right to Lead Davening

(Cross posted at Blog the Kaddish)Some of the rules of being a mourner seem obvious to me.  I understand why ...

Klaus the Mouse in My House

Part of my hazing to New York City is, apparently, having to deal with mice in my apartment building.  The ...

Jews in Television #1: Mazel Tov on Becoming a Dad

I’m devoting today’s posts to the love of my life: Television.Because I was a bit too young to appreciate it ...

A Different Kind of “From the Academy”

Recently a group of more than 250 Jewish studies scholars endorsed Barack Obama. At first I was a little confused ...

Eruv: The Next Generation

Technological artist Elliot Malkin isn’t a stranger to religious art. While still a student at NYU, he designed Crucifix NG, ...

From Keggers to Kosher

I’ve been meaning to post this for a while, and thought it might be a fun video for you to ...

From the Academy: Benjamin Sommer

In this installment of “From the Academy,� Dr. Benjamin Sommer, Professor of Bible at the Jewish Theological Seminary, tells us ...

Gay Marriage: Jews vs Mormons

An email from the usually-hilarious San Francisco-based comic Heather Gold (who, by the way, you can see live on Margaret ...

The Big Schlep is lame

Back in 2000, the Baha Men came out with their hit single, Who Let the Dogs Out. Man, that song ...

Keeping Kosher Chaos

There are a dizzying array of symbols found of food packaging that indicates something is certified kosher.  Everything from the ...

Happy 1940

MJL’s latest biography tells the story of Eliezer Ben Yehuda, the father of Modern Hebrew. So determined to bring Hebrew ...

Healing Havdalah

What are you up to on November 8? Depending who you are, either celebrating, stewing, or plotting revenge against fraudulent ...

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