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Earlier this year, when Tillie Olsen passed away, I emailed Alice Mattison, author of the wonderful story collection In Case ...

-Some views on whether the rise in the percentage of Jewish men who do not serve in the IDF is ...

It’s Elul for Michael Vick, too. After pleading guilty to charges related to his involvement in dogfighting, Vick gave a ...

I’ve blogged about Eli Valley’s comics here before. Now the Jewish writer/communal professional has created web site dedicated solely to ...

-A first-hand account of the evacuation of the families from Hebron. (The Jewish Press)-Gideon Levy argues that the evacuation from ...

This week’s Forward includes their annual guide to Jewish genetic diseases. With advances in technology and medicine, the number of ...

Grace Paley, a wonderful writer and fierce social activist has died. She was 84. The MJL article about Paley can ...

In this week’s Jewish Week, our friend Mik Moore from jspot considers the lack of Jewish representation at the YearlyKos ...

-There may be as much as 4 billion dollars worth of natural gas offshore of Gaza. Why has it not ...

We all get cravings. There’s the usual–chocolate, pizza, Chinese food. The childlike–macaroni and cheese, peanut butter and jelly. The Jewish–pickles, ...

Today’s Jewel of Elul from Craig and Co. is by Jerome Groopman, a professor of medicine at Harvard and a ...

I finally started reading Michael Chabon’s new novel The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, and so far, as virtually all the reviews ...

Recently the Union for Reform Judaism published a new edition of Kulanu (All of Us), a resource guide for LGBT ...

Don’t get me wrong. Academic pressure is nothing new. Case in point: when I was in third grade my teacher ...

“The cats here are asleep- the poor, wretched, imprisoned cats. I feel like abusing them.”Just another classic quote from Tomorrow’s ...