Partner Blogs

Hanukkah Prep

Hanukkah begins tonight, and as always, MJL is here to help you prepare. Learn about the holiday’s history, its theology ...

Judging a Book by Its Cover

Rich Cohen’s Sweet and Low has garnered one of the quirkier end-of-season literary honors: Bookslut has named it one of ...

Reading Jimmy Carter

I just started reading Jimmy Carter’s new book Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, which has been garnering serious criticism in the ...

The Orthodox Respond

Thanks to Canonist for calling attention to the Orthodox institutions that responded to last week’s decision by (some in) the ...

More Ideas, More Rushkoff

Mobius over at Jewschool has posted a long and thoughtful response to the “Next Big Jewish Idea” question. Rather than ...

MJL’s Hanukkah Appeal

A few times a year, we at MJL ask our audience to donate to help us keep going and growing ...

An American Problem

The last couple of days we’ve been lamenting the unfortunate state of the “Jewish Idea” — original thoughts, concepts, visions, ...

The Next Great Jewish Band-Aid

Our friend Rabbi Eliyahu Stern over at Beliefnet’s “Virtual Talmud” has weighed in on the odd — if not ridiculous ...

Ozick on Baeck

The New York Times Book Review this weekend featured an essay by novelist Cynthia Ozick about her intellectual adventure from ...

The Next Big Idea

In this week’s Jewish Week, editor Gary Rosenblatt begins his search for, what he calls, “The Next Big Jewish Idea.” ...

Questions & Comments

Over at Jewschool, folks are commenting on Jay’s MJL post about the Conservative movement’s decision yesterday. Is there anyone out ...

Gay History in the Making, I Guess

Today was the day that we’d worked for all these years: finally the doors of the Conservative movement have been ...

My Statement

STATEMENT BY JAY MICHAELSON, DIRECTOR OF NEHIRIM (A NATIONAL JEWISH GAY & LESBIAN ORGANIZATION), FROM PRESS CONFERENCE ON CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT ...

Responsa on Homosexuality

As expected, the Conservative movement’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards announced today that it has accepted multiple, conflicting responsa ...

Today’s the Day

The Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly begins its long-awaited meeting today to review its position on homosexuality. In all, five papers, ...