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From AJWS’s Aaron Dorfman…As thousands of Buddhist monks continue to take to the streets of Rangoon in protest over ongoing ...

The Orthodox Union (OU) has just certified some additional flavors of Jelly Belly jelly beans as kosher: Berry Blue Buttered ...

I’m really hoping that this woman will be able to relate to this one.

-Buzzy Gordon and Barry Goldsmith select “a minyan of remarkable synagogues known for their beauty or their place in history,� ...

I’m a few days late getting this up, but it still holds true. From Overheard in NY: Old Jewish man ...

Guest blogger Rabbi Jennifer Krause is the author of The Answer: Making Sense of Life, One Question at a Time. ...

Shalom Auslander’s memoir Foreskin’s Lament was published last week and seems to be selling quite well on Amazon. For those ...

-Michael Freund decries the fact that Subbotnik Jews are allowed to make aliya under the Law of Return “only as ...

In a piece from Slate last month, renowned bible translator Robert Alter describes the process of translating Psalms, for his ...

Guest blogger Rabbi Jennifer Krause is the author of The Answer: Making Sense of Life, One Question at a Time.Dear ...

From the Forward: Moses and God are coming to the big screen later this month. “The Ten Commandments,� an animated ...

-The head of the national Religious party Benny Elon has proposed his solution: Israel would take sovereignty over the entire ...

Philip Roth’s wait continues. Doris Lessing has won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature. MORE…

Maybe God really isn’t great. If He were so great, wouldn’t He have made sure Christopher Hitchens wasn’t nominated for ...

Yesterday I blogged about JOI’s Big Tent Judaism initiative. As I got to thinking more about problem of being welcoming ...