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Today is not only Labor Day; it is also Rosh Chodesh Elul, the first day of the Jewish month of ...

Yoel Marcus asks of Benjamin Netanyahu, “What is the secret of this man, who flubbed up as prime minister, who ...

On the way out of work yesterday, I was a little dazed — possibly by the sun, possibly by the ...

A friend sent me the following hilarity…

The Jewish Agency releases a new plan for attracting 1,000 American high-tech professionals to Israel by 2010, but “Just 30 ...

Recently, we received a letter in the office from a person in jail, asking if we can send him a ...

NPR reports that refugees from Sudan, Eritrea and Kenya, fleeing the economic and health crises in their own countries, are ...

A recent issue of the Economist had a fascinating review of Edna Fernandes’ new book The Last Jews of Kerala: ...

I went home for Shabbat. Home meaning my parents’ house, which despite knowing I shouldn’t — I have an apartment ...

“The whole idea of Chefs for Peace is to show that here we are, working in one kitchen, Muslim, Christian ...

Okay, remember when we learned about the Jewish heritage of various comic-book characters yesterday? Now, we’re going to see it ...

Earlier this week, I blogged about Vivian Gornick’s recent assertion that “Jewish writing is over.” Gornick was suggesting that the ...

This was announced a few months ago, and now a 6-page preview is up. But I haven’t seen it making ...

Ali Waked reports that the Hamas raid on the Hilles clan compound marks the completion of the June 2007 revolution, ...

Yesterday, I convinced my beneficent editor to let me out early in order to go to a friend’s son’s upsheren ...