Partner Blogs

-A conference in Israel looks at the Reform Movement’s failure to make significant inroads in Israeli society. (The Jerusalem Post)-Rabbi ...

At one point in history, the sport of boxing was dominated by Jewish men. And while those days are long ...

Welcome to the first installment of “From the Academy,” in which I (will hopefully) check in with Jewish Studies professors ...

Just a day after Tu Bishvat comes word that the United States continues to receive poor grades on environmental issues. ...

-With Ms. Magazine rejecting an ad celebrating three Israeli women leaders, Phyllis Chesler accuses “This is a feminism that has ...

Most of my conversations about the presidential primaries have been about the Democratic field. But Tom over at Blogs of ...

Everyone has different ways of learning about the weekly Torah portions: reading the actual text, studying d’vrei torah, acting out ...

Tu Bishvat–often known as the Jewish New Year for trees–celebrates the coming of spring and the seven species of fruits, ...

Israeli cinema took another step forward this morning when Joseph Cedar’s Beaufort was nominated for an Academy Award, Best Foreign ...

One of the stand-out sessions for me at this year’s LimmudNY was a panel called Can You Hear My Now? ...

OR: Tales of a Postdenominational Jew at a Postdenominational Conference.This is my first year at LimmudNY, and I didn’t quite ...

The ever-insightful Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein has an interesting and sobering post over at Cross-Currents about the Spinka Hasid tax fraud ...

Much has been written in the New York blogosphere about the real-ness quotient on CW’s addicting new hit Gossip Girl. ...

There’s an old saying “Man plans and God laughs,” but recently I realized that, in the Bible, it’s God who ...

With primary season in full swing, I thought I’d poll you, dear readers, on who you think you’ll be voting ...