Partner Blogs

The commandment to wipe out the nation of Amalek is, perhaps, one of the most morally complicated parts of the ...

Yesterday Daniel, noted in the comments section of Matthue’s blog on Sarah Palin that “strangely, Gawker is becoming quite the ...

In one of this week’s Jewels of Elul, Marc Platt, the producer of Wicked , reflects on the evolution of ...

As a new parent, I’ve become suddenly and acutely sensitive to smoking. While I used to personally detest it and ...

Last week it was reported that six men were arrested in Pakistan for burying five women alive in a so-called ...

My copy of The Autobiographer’s Handbook arrived today. Edited by the illimitable Jennifer Traig, with an introduction by Dave Eggers, ...

I need to confess something.  I have a big crush on Mordecai Kaplan.  I am a firm believer that most ...

Recently I walked into a Judaica store in New York City with my boyfriend. We had to buy some new ...

Great news for those hoping the upcoming Israeli elections will decrease corruption by government officials. Aryeh Deri is running for ...

These Presidential elections sure do go on for a while.  Sometimes, I say, “Why can’t the US just be like ...

Well, except for the name part. According to Vos Iz Neias, Rubashkin isn’t the only game in town — or ...

The complex set of lessons imparted at the IDF’s Officer Training School near Mitzpe Ramon. (Jerusalem Post)Only 52% of Israeli ...

I received this from a (non-Jewish) teacher at a school that’s largely not Jewish. It’s a classroom experiment — and, ...

Yesterday, I had never heard of Dothan, Alabama.  Today, I might be considering a move there.  Larry Blumberg and his ...

Scientists at Hebrew University are helping to raise Israel’s first sturgeon population at Kibbutz Dan in the Upper Galilee. Female ...