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Israeli Certainty

According to a new poll, 85% of Israelis believe in God, while 12% are atheists. The interesting part of the ...

How Is This Night Different?

Ima is cleaning.When I was pregnant, I ate saltine crackers in bed to ward off the morning sickness. When my ...

The Circumcision Debate

Last month, I went to the bris of a colleague’s newborn son, and I was reminded how difficult these lifecycle ...

Is Patrilineal Descent Next?

A very interesting letter to the editor in this week’s Jewish Week raises a fascinating question: With gay and lesbian ...

Jerusalem via Austin

As promised, here’s a link to my Jerusalem Post write-up of this year’s South By Southwest music festival, with a ...

Passover Fun Roundup

Here are some great sites to get your kids or students excited about Passover. Babaganewz has a terrific magic trick, ...

Meir Soloveichik on Interfaith Dialogue

This month’s issue of Commentary includes a lengthy essay by Meir Soloveichik, in which he rejects theological interfaith dialogue. Soloveichik ...

In Your Inbox

Throughout the month of March we’ve been highlighting Jewish Women’s Archive’s This Week in History, a unique feature that highlights ...

For Mom’s Sake

The fourth issue of Guilt & Pleasure is now out, and at first glance, it seems as good (and good-looking) ...

Major Merger

Big news from the West Coast. The University of Judaism and the Brandeis-Bardin Institute are merging and forming a new ...

Ritual Contamination and Liberalism

David Klinghoffer’s latest assault on liberalism — published on Jewcy.com — is an attempt to frame liberalism in terms of ...

The Safran Foer Haggadah

The Forward‘s got the scoop on novelist Jonathan Safran Foer’s next writing projects. The first is a continuation to his ...

Yentl the Mensch

What is it about Barbra?Jewish Women’s Archive celebrates mega-star Barbra Streisand’s 1963 Broadway debut in This Week in History: Streisand has ...

The $Big$ Winner

This just in from the Jewish Book Council: New York, NY (March 21, 2007) –The Jewish Book Council, administrator of ...

Without an Eruv

This past Shabbat, my little boy was a prisoner of Jewish law. The DC Eruv was down, which meant that ...