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The Media on the Media
-Although Israeli-Arabs make up 19% of the population, their representation in the media stands at only 1%. For example in ...
Sustainable Chanukah Gift Guide
Hanukkah is just around the corner. Let the gift shopping begin. Leah Koneg at The Jew and the Carrot has ...
The Inspired Kitchen
A few years ago, signs began popping up around Tel Aviv and beyond advertising a new delicacy: sabich. This savory ...
What Hell Smells Like
The Jerusalem Post reports:Reform and Conservative synagogues reek of hell [Gehinom] and a Jew should not even come near their ...
And the winner is
So a few weeks back, philanthropist Charles Bronfman decides to start a contest to find the next “Big Idea” in ...
We are not Comedy Central
A few weeks ago, we were flattered to receive this message: Please stop airing the commercial ordering people to watch ...
Covering Up at the Beach
MJL recently got an interesting email from a woman designing a line of modest swimwear. Thought I’d share: Shalom…I am ...
Move over Tickle Me Elmo
Red strings are so five minutes ago. FAO Schwartz is now carrying Kabbalistic Beasties, stuffed animals based on amulets that ...
Jewish Beliefs & Practices
-Ron Wolfson says that you should make “God’s To-Do Listâ€? your To-Do list. Literally: “Compile. Keep track. Make lists. Itemize… ...
The youth–a different view
While Daniel was at the GA, I was at another, lesser-known Jewish conference. Kivun, a project of the Center for ...
The Battle of the Atheist Jews
Every hero needs a villain. Superman has Lex Luthor, Harry Potter has Voldemort, Holmes has Moriarty. And in all the ...
God in Search of Facebook
Apparently, Abraham Joshua Heschel has a Facebook page. I want him to be my friend. But what if he says ...
Reading A.M. Klein
In my latest column for the Jerusalem Post, I examine the work of a wonderful, though virtually forgotten, North American ...
Norman Mailer
We’ve managed, though not aimed, to omit from the blog the passing of writer Norman Mailer last Saturday. Rather than ...
Bringing Down Rubashkin’s
Apparently, Agriprocessors/Rubashkin’s — the largest glatt kosher slaughterhouse in the world — is in trouble again.The PETA-challenged company issued a ...