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My Time in Jail

My name is Jason Herman and I am the rabbi at the West Side Jewish Center in Manhattan. I want ...

Old-Time Religion

Not sure how I missed this, but thanks to Mark Berch for pointing out this story about Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz ...

God Hates Brady Quinn

Or at least He likes former Ohio State wide receiver Ted Ginn Jr. more. Or at least that’s what Ginn ...

Introducing JSoN

Our partner, Jewish Coalition for Service, recently launched its new web initiative, the Jewish Service Online Network (JSoN, for short — ...

Falling Man

I just received a copy of Don DeLillo’s new novel, Falling Man, which will be published in mid-May. DeLillo is ...

Fein: Circumcision is Fine

In this week’s Forward, Leonard Fein takes on the anti-circumcision crowd (and makes a few jokes along the way):Google “circumcisionâ€? ...

The Inspired Kitchen

The latest installment of Adeena Sussman’s MJL food column “The Inspired Kitchen� is now available. The newest recipe: Kasha Varnishkes, ...

More Englander

Some more notes on last night’s Nathan Englander/Ben Karlin conversation.– Karlin was, for the most part, hilarious (which should be ...

Jew Englander Jew (cf. Judaism; Jewish)

Last night, at the New York Public Library, Nathan Englander conducted his first reading/program for his new novel, The Ministry ...

Israeli Art

This Yom Haatzmaut, Israeli artists have a lot to celebrate. As JTA’s Ben Harris recently reported, Israeli art is doing ...

Oy, Such a Shmendrick!

The amateur etymologist in me enjoyed this piece on the genesis of the Yiddish term shmendrick in the April issue ...

Yom Hazikaron 2007

A painful and moving tribute to those who gave their lives for Israel.

The Envelope, Please

MJL has been nominated for a Jewish and Israeli Blog Award for Best New Blog. Are you an avid reader ...

Money For Nothing

Congratulations to MJL contributor Saul Austerlitz on the publications of his first book, Money for Nothing: A History of the ...

Anti-Semitic Liturgy

In light of Eli Stern’s op-ed about interfaith dialogue that I blogged about yesterday, this news story about Orthodox Christians ...