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Klinghoffer Watch

Thanks to LastTrumpet over at Jewschool for weighing in with a critique of David Klinghoffer’s latest Forward op-ed. It’s hard ...

Fundamentalist Relativism

In this week’s Jewish Week, Rabbi Eliyahu Stern addresses an issue I raised a few weeks ago in reference to ...

Yiddish Policemen

Michael Chabon’s new novel The Yiddish Policemen’s Union won’t be published until May 1, but the Forward has jumped the ...

All the President’s Meals

Okay. This has nothing to do with anything Jewish, but it’s a great story, so here goes.A friend of mine, ...

Kvetching About Minyan

A lot has been written about the independent minyan movement, but most of that writing isn’t so funny. Not that ...

Balkan Beat Box

Balkan Beat Box’s new album, NU MED, is available on iTunes today and will go on sale May 15th. If ...

Thinking About Zionism

Next week we’ll celebrate Yom Haatzmaut, Israeli Independence Day, and before the partying starts, we thought we’d spend this week ...

My Rebbe’s Rebbe

Since the beginning of the school year, The Commentator, Yeshiva University’s newspaper, has featured article-length reflections on Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik’s ...

Jewish Genius

The American Enterprise Institute’s Charles Murray has published an article in this month’s issue of Commentary Magazine that is already ...

He’s Back…

Nathan Englander’s long-awaited follow-up to his amazing story collection For the Relief on Unbearable Urges will be published later this ...

Tikkun Olam Watch

Recently, in a four-part series published in the Charlotte Observer, my old college roommate Binyamin Appelbaum, broke a huge story ...

Kafka in Bronteland

A few weeks ago, Tamar Yellin won the first $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for her novel The ...

Roth and Bellow, Again

Philip Roth has won another award, the first PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, named for his good ...

MJL Editorial Internship

MyJewishLearning.com is seeking a summer intern to work out of its New York, NY headquarters. This intern will work closely ...

Pour Out Thy Wrath

Over at Contentions, Hillel Halkin has posted a thought about one of the Passover Haggadah’s most difficult texts: shfokh hamatkha, ...