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Favorite Jewish Shots and Cocktails For Simchat Torah
Wednesday is Simchat Torah, which generally means dancing around with the Torah, watching little kids wave some flags they made ...
“Your God Will Understand”
There’s a little world of difference between Australia and Brooklyn. Here in New York, pretty much every Gentile knows when ...
Anne Frank in Cambodia
Reincarnators aren’t the only people interested in Anne Frank. The Diary of Anne Frank was recently translated in the Khmer, ...
Sukkah Chasers
One of our new articles at MyJewishLearning, Celebrating Sukkot without a Sukkah, is a lavishly creative and thoroughly detailed exploration ...
Go To Shul, Rock Your Report Card
A recent study at my alma mater, the University of Iowa (go Hawks!), concludes that teenagers who go to church ...
Do I Really Have to Market Reading To You?
I got waaaay behind in some of my RSS feeds in September, so I just saw this AdFreak commentary on ...
Sukkot Poll
Matthue wrote an interesting piece the other day talking about his search for an etrog But not everyone (myself included) ...
Nachman Gangsta Stylezzz
Thank you Matthue for your post on Rabbi Nachman. It reminded me of a pretty crazy video. Have you ever ...
Rebbe Nachman Is Alive and Well and Living Inside Us
Today is the yahrzeit of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov — who, on our site, earns the epigraph The Man who ...
What Religion Is
I haven’t yet seen Bill Maher’s new documentary Religulous, but it’s premise is hardly novel. By now, we know the ...
Anne Frank reincarnated
A minister friend writes, the Spiritualist Church is formally *not* adopting any ideas or belief concerning reincarnation on their National ...
The Concept of Jewball
Jewball. Urban Dictionary describes it as “a less intensive version of any of the following: baseball, basketball, football, etc.”By that ...
Etrog!!!
You’d think an etrog in Hasidic Brooklyn would be easy to find.After all, when I lived in San Francisco (Jewish ...
Denying your Judaism: You’re not the only one
This past Monday afternoon, while walking out of a restaurant with my lunch in hand, I spotted a table of ...
The Bailout: a modest proposal
In the aftermath of the third debate, our friend Sarah Lefton, the person behind all those Jews for Jeter t-shirts, ...