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It’s Up To You

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

Jews in Far-Flung Places

-Myanmar’s 20 remaining Jews fear for their small community. (Ynet)-The Jewish life in Taiwan, one dominated by Syrian Jews, is ...

Refusing to Play

Iranian-born German soccer player Ashkan Dejagah is making headlines for electing to skip his team’s upcoming match in Tel Aviv. ...

Big Tent Judaism

This week, Rabbi Kerry Olitzky of the Jewish Outreach Institute, along with Rabbi Elliot Dorf of the American Jewish University, ...

Poll: Nobel for Philip Roth?

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The Dangerous Book for Boychiks

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

I’d like to buy a vowel

This past weekend, Jews began, once again, to read the Torah cycle. As most people know, the Torah scroll itself ...

Action Figures

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

Exit Zuckerman

I don’t usually need an excuse to talk about Philip Roth, but his new novel Exit Ghost seemed like a ...

A Map Quest

Prior to the High Holidays, the New York Board of Rabbis previewed its official Jewish New York History and Heritage ...

Israeli Zeitgeist

-The 2007 “Corruption Perceptions Index” shows a modest improvement for Israel over 2006. (Haaretz) -The latest survey of Israeli attitudes ...

Matrimony: An Excerpt

Yesterday I posted an interview I did with Joshua Henkin, author of the new novel Matrimony. Now here’s an excerpt ...

Contemporary Ketubot

MJL contributing writer Jessica Kraft has just launched a website featuring the contemporary ketubot that she designs for soon-to-be married ...

Matrimony: An Interview

Joshua Henkin’s new novel Matrimony hits bookstores today. You can read a description of the book here and order it ...

I’m only going to do this once

Lots has been put out there in the Jewish world (particularly the blogging community) about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit ...